The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 54
I might heap up sand and stones, and make our island as big again.’
Who acts: I · What happens: heap up, make · To what, where: sand, island
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), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 heap | nsubj |
| 2 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 heap | aux |
| 3 | heap | heap | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 heap | compound:prt |
| 5 | sand | sand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 heap | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 stones | cc |
| 7 | stones | stone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 sand | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 make | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 make | cc |
| 10 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 heap | conj |
| 11 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 island | nmod:poss |
| 12 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 make | obj |
| 13 | as | as | ADP | _ | 14 big | case |
| 14 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 make | xcomp |
| 15 | again | again | ADV | _ | 14 big | advmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 heap | punct |
| 17 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 heap | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | heap up | might | I | sand and stones | vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent sand=Theme | ||||
| 2 | make | present | I not said here | our island | big property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset island=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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