The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 115
‘You have been there without being killed by the magician?’ cried Peronnik.
Who acts: You, magician · What happens: be, kill, cry
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, magician), 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 there | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 there | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 there | aux |
| 4 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 there | cop |
| 5 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | root | root |
| 6 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 8 killed | mark |
| 7 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 killed | aux:pass |
| 8 | killed | kill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 cried | advcl |
| 9 | by | by | ADP | _ | 11 magician | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 magician | det |
| 11 | magician | magician | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 killed | obl |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 killed | punct |
| 13 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 killed | punct |
| 14 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 there | parataxis |
| 15 | Peronnik | Peronnik | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 cried | flat |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 there | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present · perfect | You | there property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | kill | gerund · passive | the magician | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | cry speech: express | past | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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