The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 25, sentence 9
‘No,’ said Aina, ‘but there is certainly some good fairy living among these raspberry bushes.
Who acts: Aina, good fairy · What happens: say, be, live · To what, where: good fairy, raspberry bushes · 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 (Aina, good fairy), 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 | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 2 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 5 said | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 No | punct |
| 4 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 fairy | parataxis |
| 6 | Aina | Aina | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 said | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 8 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 is | cc |
| 10 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 11 is | expl |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 fairy | cop |
| 12 | certainly | certainly | ADV | _ | 11 is | advmod |
| 13 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 15 fairy | det |
| 14 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 fairy | amod |
| 15 | fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 16 | living | live | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 15 fairy | acl |
| 17 | among | among | ADP | _ | 20 bushes | case |
| 18 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 20 bushes | det |
| 19 | raspberry | raspberry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 bushes | compound |
| 20 | bushes | bush | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 living | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 fairy | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Aina | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a | present | some good fairy | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | live | gerund | some good fairy not said here | this raspberry bushes | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme among bush=Location |
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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