The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 25, sentence 74
‘Oh, you mustn’t lose time in grumbling,’ rejoined the donkey gaily, ‘and don’t you see that the wizard is asleep?’
Who acts: you, wizard · What happens: not lose, rejoin, do, not see, be · To what, where: grumbling, donkey
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 (you, wizard), 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 | _ | 7 lose | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 7 lose | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 lose | nsubj |
| 5 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 lose | aux |
| 6 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 lose | advmod |
| 7 | lose | lose | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 rejoined | ccomp |
| 8 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 lose | obj |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 grumbling | case |
| 10 | grumbling | grumbling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 lose | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 lose | punct |
| 12 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 lose | punct |
| 13 | rejoined | rejoin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 donkey | det |
| 15 | donkey | donkey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 rejoined | obj |
| 16 | gaily | gaily | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 rejoined | xcomp |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 gaily | punct |
| 18 | ‘ | ‘ | PUNCT | _ | 20 do | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 do | cc |
| 20 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 13 rejoined | parataxis |
| 21 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 23 see | advmod |
| 22 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 23 see | nsubj |
| 23 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 do | advcl |
| 24 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 28 asleep | mark |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 wizard | det |
| 26 | wizard | wizard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 asleep | nsubj |
| 27 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 asleep | cop |
| 28 | asleep | asleep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 see | advcl |
| 29 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 20 do | punct |
| 30 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 20 do | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not lose | must | you | grumbling | time | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V PP.eventuality S_ING»: agent=Agent in grumbling=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | rejoin | past | the donkey | gaily property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | do | infinitive | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | not see | present | you | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 5 | is | present | the wizard | asleep 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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