The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 53
‘I never could pump the sea out,’ thought she, ‘but perhaps I might fill it up, if I were to make a big dam.
Who acts: I, sea · What happens: not pump out, think, fill up, make · To what, where: sea, fun, big dam · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (I, sea), 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 | _ | 5 pump | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 pump | nsubj |
| 3 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 5 pump | advmod |
| 4 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 pump | aux |
| 5 | pump | pump | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 thought | ccomp |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 sea | det |
| 7 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 pump | obj |
| 8 | out | out | ADP | _ | 5 pump | compound:prt |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 pump | punct |
| 10 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 pump | punct |
| 11 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 fill | nsubj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 she | punct |
| 14 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 19 fill | punct |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 fill | cc |
| 16 | perhaps | perhaps | ADV | _ | 19 fill | advmod |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 fill | nsubj |
| 18 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 fill | aux |
| 19 | fill | fill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 thought | ccomp |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 fill | obj |
| 21 | up | up | ADP | _ | 19 fill | compound:prt |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 make | punct |
| 23 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 27 make | mark |
| 24 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 27 make | nsubj |
| 25 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 make | aux |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 make | mark |
| 27 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 fill | advcl |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 dam | det |
| 29 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 dam | amod |
| 30 | dam | dam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 make | obj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not pump out | could | I | the sea | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent sea=Theme | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other | past | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | fill up | might | sea | fun | perhaps property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient | |||
| 4 | make a condition, not said to happen | past | I | a big dam | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dam=Product |
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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