The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 31
‘Hush! it is close on midnight--we must go,’ whispered the wizard, and together they crept to the edge of the wood.
Who acts: world, we, jewels · What happens: be, go, whisper, creep · To what, where: wizard, edge · 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 (world, we, jewels), 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 | _ | 6 close | punct |
| 2 | Hush | hush | INTJ | _ | 6 close | discourse |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Hush | punct |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 close | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 close | cop |
| 6 | close | close | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 whispered | ccomp |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 midnight | case |
| 8 | midnight | midnight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 close | obl |
| 9 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 12 go | punct |
| 10 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 go | nsubj |
| 11 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 go | aux |
| 12 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 close | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 close | punct |
| 14 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 close | punct |
| 15 | whispered | whisper | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 wizard | det |
| 17 | wizard | wizard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 whispered | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 crept | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 crept | cc |
| 20 | together | together | ADV | _ | 22 crept | advmod |
| 21 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 crept | nsubj |
| 22 | crept | creep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 whispered | conj |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 edge | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 edge | det |
| 25 | edge | edge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 crept | obl |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 wood | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 wood | det |
| 28 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 edge | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 whispered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | world | midnight | close property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | go | must | we | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | whisper speech: assert | past | the wizard | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wizard=Topic | |||||
| 4 | creep | past | jewels = jewel | the edge of the wood | together property | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to edge=Destination |
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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