The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 58
‘That is sea foam glinting in the sunshine,’ answered the fiddler.
Who acts: That, sea foam · What happens: be, glint, answer · To what, where: sea foam, sunshine, fiddler
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 (That, sea foam), 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 foam | punct |
| 2 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 foam | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 foam | cop |
| 4 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 foam | compound |
| 5 | foam | foam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 answered | nsubj |
| 6 | glinting | glint | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 foam | acl |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 sunshine | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 sunshine | det |
| 9 | sunshine | sunshine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 glinting | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 foam | punct |
| 11 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 foam | punct |
| 12 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 fiddler | det |
| 14 | fiddler | fiddler | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 answered | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | That | sea foam | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | glint | gerund | sea foam not said here | the sunshine | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in sunshine=Location | ||||
| 3 | answer speech: assert | past | sea foam | the fiddler | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent fiddler=Eventuality |
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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