The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 51
‘Try with thy new steamer, there is a pump in it.’
Who acts: you, pump · What happens: try, be
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, pump), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Try | punct |
| 2 | Try | try | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 steamer | case |
| 4 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 6 steamer | nmod:poss |
| 5 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 steamer | amod |
| 6 | steamer | steamer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Try | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 is | punct |
| 8 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 9 is | expl |
| 9 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 Try | advcl |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 pump | det |
| 11 | pump | pump | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 is | nsubj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 it | case |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 pump | nmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Try | punct |
| 15 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Try | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | try | imperative | you not said here | with thy new steamer | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | be | present | a pump in steamer | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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