The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 23
‘You are punctual,’ said the old man, ‘but we need not start just yet.
Who acts: You, old man, we · What happens: be, say, not start · Speech: someone speaks here
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, old man, we), 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 | _ | 4 punctual | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 punctual | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 punctual | cop |
| 4 | punctual | punctual | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 said | ccomp |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 punctual | punct |
| 6 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 punctual | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 man | det |
| 9 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 man | amod |
| 10 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | nsubj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 ‘ | punct |
| 12 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 start | cc |
| 14 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 start | nsubj |
| 15 | need | need | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 start | aux |
| 16 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 start | advmod |
| 17 | start | start | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 ‘ | conj |
| 18 | just | just | ADV | _ | 19 yet | advmod |
| 19 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 17 start | advmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | You | punctual property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the old man | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | not start | present | we | yet | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
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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