The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 77
Maie looked around her amazed, and said, ‘Where is our two-storey house?’
Who acts: Maie · What happens: look around, say, be · To what, where: storey house · 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 (Maie), 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 | Maie | Maie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 looked | nsubj |
| 2 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | around | around | ADP | _ | 5 amazed | mark |
| 4 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 amazed | nmod:poss |
| 5 | amazed | amazed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 looked | xcomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 said | cc |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 looked | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 house | punct |
| 10 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 Where | punct |
| 11 | Where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 17 house | advmod |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 house | cop |
| 13 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 house | nmod:poss |
| 14 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 storey | nummod |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 two | punct |
| 16 | storey | storey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 house | compound |
| 17 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | ccomp |
| 18 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 17 house | punct |
| 19 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 17 house | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look around | past | Maie | amazed property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Maie not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is a | present | our storey house | tree rules |
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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