The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 79
‘To a magician named Rogear who lives in the castle,’ answered the woman.
Who acts: magician · What happens: name, live, answer · To what, where: magician, castle, woman
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 (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 | _ | 14 answered | punct |
| 2 | To | to | ADP | _ | 4 magician | case |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 magician | det |
| 4 | magician | magician | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 answered | obl |
| 5 | named | name | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 magician | acl |
| 6 | Rogear | Rogear | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 named | xcomp |
| 7 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 lives | nsubj |
| 8 | lives | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 magician | acl:relcl |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 castle | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 castle | det |
| 11 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 lives | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 magician | punct |
| 13 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 answered | punct |
| 14 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 woman | det |
| 16 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 answered | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | name | participle | a magician not said here | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | live | present | a magician | the castle | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in castle=Location | ||||
| 3 | answer speech: assert | past | the woman | to a magician | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent woman=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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