The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 64
‘If you can find anything here, you are welcome to it,’ answered she, and, indeed, there was not much left, as everybody’s spoon had dipped in.
Who acts: you · What happens: find, be, answer, leave, dip in · To what, where: anything, way, wife, spoon
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), 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 find | punct |
| 2 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 5 find | mark |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 find | nsubj |
| 4 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 find | aux |
| 5 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 answered | ccomp |
| 6 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 5 find | obj |
| 7 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 find | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 welcome | punct |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 welcome | nsubj |
| 10 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 welcome | cop |
| 11 | welcome | welcome | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 find | conj |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 it | case |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 welcome | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 find | punct |
| 15 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 find | punct |
| 16 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 answered | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 left | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 left | cc |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 and | punct |
| 21 | indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 27 left | advmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 indeed | punct |
| 23 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 27 left | expl |
| 24 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 left | aux:pass |
| 25 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 26 much | advmod |
| 26 | much | much | ADV | _ | 27 left | advmod |
| 27 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 answered | parataxis |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 dipped | punct |
| 29 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 34 dipped | mark |
| 30 | everybody | everybody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 32 spoon | nmod:poss |
| 31 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 30 everybody | case |
| 32 | spoon | spoon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 dipped | nsubj:pass |
| 33 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 dipped | aux |
| 34 | dipped | dip | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 27 left | conj |
| 35 | in | in | ADP | _ | 34 dipped | compound:prt |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find a condition, not said to happen | can | you | anything | here | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Topic | |||
| 2 | is | present | you | way | welcome property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | answer speech: assert | past | wife | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | leave | past · passive | there | indeed property | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V» | ||||
| 5 | dip in | past · perfect · passive | everybody's spoon | vn meander-47.7-1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=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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