The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 72
‘Ah, your majesty, they have been scattered day and night upon the sea, except when the sky was overcast,’ slyly answered Maie.
What happens: scatter, overcast, answer · To what, where: gold, sea, sky, Maie
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: 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 | _ | 10 scattered | punct |
| 2 | Ah | ah | INTJ | _ | 10 scattered | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 majesty | punct |
| 4 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 majesty | nmod:poss |
| 5 | majesty | majesty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Ah | vocative |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Ah | punct |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 scattered | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 scattered | aux |
| 9 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 scattered | aux:pass |
| 10 | scattered | scatter | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 11 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 scattered | obl:unmarked |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 night | cc |
| 13 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 day | conj |
| 14 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 16 sea | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 sea | det |
| 16 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 scattered | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 overcast | punct |
| 18 | except | except | ADP | _ | 23 overcast | mark |
| 19 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 23 overcast | advmod |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 sky | det |
| 21 | sky | sky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 overcast | nsubj:pass |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 overcast | aux:pass |
| 23 | overcast | overcast | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 scattered | conj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 scattered | punct |
| 25 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 scattered | punct |
| 26 | slyly | slyly | ADV | _ | 27 answered | advmod |
| 27 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 scattered | parataxis |
| 28 | Maie | Maie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 answered | obj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 scattered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | scatter | present · perfect · passive | gold | the sea | day | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme upon sea=Destination | |||
| 2 | overcast | past · passive | the sky | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: subject=Co-Theme | |||||
| 3 | answer speech: assert | past | Maie | slyly property | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent maie=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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