The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 25, sentence 28
Good-bye, little children, thank you for your kind hearts; the raspberry king can show that he is not ungrateful.’
Who acts: Good little children, raspberry king, king · What happens: thank, show, not be · To what, where: you · 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 (Good little children, raspberry king, king), 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 | Good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 children | amod |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 bye | punct |
| 3 | bye | bye | INTJ | _ | 1 Good | flat |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 children | punct |
| 5 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 children | amod |
| 6 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 thank | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 thank | punct |
| 8 | thank | thank | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 thank | obj |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 hearts | case |
| 11 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 hearts | nmod:poss |
| 12 | kind | kind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 hearts | compound |
| 13 | hearts | heart | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 thank | obl |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 show | punct |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 king | det |
| 16 | raspberry | raspberry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 king | compound |
| 17 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 show | nsubj |
| 18 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 show | aux |
| 19 | show | show | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 thank | parataxis |
| 20 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 24 ungrateful | mark |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 ungrateful | nsubj |
| 22 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 ungrateful | cop |
| 23 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 24 ungrateful | advmod |
| 24 | ungrateful | ungrateful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 show | ccomp |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 show | punct |
| 26 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 19 show | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | thank speech: thank | present | Good little children | you | for your kind hearts | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent you=Theme for heart=Attribute | |||
| 2 | show | can | the raspberry king | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | not is | present | king | ungrateful property | 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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