The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 25, sentence 14
‘I have, my little girls,’ said a voice just then from the bushes.
Who acts: I · What happens: have, say · To what, where: little girls, voice · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 25. 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 have | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 have | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 said | ccomp |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 have | punct |
| 5 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 girls | nmod:poss |
| 6 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 girls | amod |
| 7 | girls | girl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 have | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 have | punct |
| 9 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 voice | det |
| 12 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | obj |
| 13 | just | just | ADV | _ | 14 then | advmod |
| 14 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 10 said | advmod |
| 15 | from | from | ADP | _ | 17 bushes | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 bushes | det |
| 17 | bushes | bush | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 then | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | I | my little girls | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent girl=Patient | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | a voice | then | 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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