The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 25
‘Oh, it won’t take me long to plan out that,’ returned Bernez with a laugh.
Who acts: it, ’ · What happens: not take, plan out, return · To what, where: me, that, Bernez
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 (it, ’), 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 take | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 7 take | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 take | nsubj |
| 5 | wo | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 take | aux |
| 6 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 take | advmod |
| 7 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 take | obj |
| 9 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 7 take | advmod |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 plan | mark |
| 11 | plan | plan | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 take | advcl |
| 12 | out | out | ADP | _ | 11 plan | compound:prt |
| 13 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 plan | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 returned | punct |
| 15 | ’ | ' | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 returned | nsubj |
| 16 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 plan | conj |
| 17 | Bernez | Bernez | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 returned | obj |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 laugh | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 laugh | det |
| 20 | laugh | laugh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 returned | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not take | future | it | me | long property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument i=Destination | |||
| 2 | plan out | to-infinitive | that | vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Topic | |||||
| 3 | return | past | ’ | Bernez | with a laugh | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bernez=Theme |
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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