The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 73
‘I’ll teach you!’ roared the sea-king; and with that he gave the fiddle such a ‘puff’ that it sent the old woman up like a sky-rocket on to her island.
Who acts: I, king, puff · What happens: teach, roar, give, send up · To what, where: you, sea king, fiddle, old woman, 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, king, puff), 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 | _ | 4 teach | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 teach | nsubj |
| 3 | ’ll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 teach | aux |
| 4 | teach | teach | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 roared | ccomp |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 teach | iobj |
| 6 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 teach | punct |
| 7 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 teach | punct |
| 8 | roared | roar | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 king | det |
| 10 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 king | compound |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 sea | punct |
| 12 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 roared | obj |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 gave | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 gave | cc |
| 15 | with | with | SCONJ | _ | 18 gave | mark |
| 16 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 18 gave | mark |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 gave | nsubj |
| 18 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 roared | conj |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 fiddle | det |
| 20 | fiddle | fiddle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 gave | obj |
| 21 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 24 puff | det:predet |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 puff | det |
| 23 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 24 puff | punct |
| 24 | puff | puff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 gave | obj |
| 25 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 24 puff | punct |
| 26 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 28 sent | mark |
| 27 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 sent | nsubj |
| 28 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 gave | advcl |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 woman | det |
| 30 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 woman | amod |
| 31 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 sent | obj |
| 32 | up | up | ADP | _ | 28 sent | compound:prt |
| 33 | like | like | ADP | _ | 37 rocket | case |
| 34 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 37 rocket | det |
| 35 | sky | sky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 rocket | compound |
| 36 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 35 sky | punct |
| 37 | rocket | rocket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 sent | obl |
| 38 | on | on | ADP | _ | 41 island | case |
| 39 | to | to | ADP | _ | 41 island | case |
| 40 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 41 island | nmod:poss |
| 41 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 sent | obl |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 roared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | teach speech: other | future | I | you | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | roar | past | the sea king | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | give | past | king | the fiddle | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent fiddle=Recipient puff=Theme | ||||
| 4 | send up | past | puff | the old woman | woman's island | like a sky rocket | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent woman=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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