The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 91
‘Well, suppose you get through safely?’ said the idiot.
Who acts: you, idiot · What happens: suppose, get, say · 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, idiot), 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 suppose | punct |
| 2 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 4 suppose | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Well | punct |
| 4 | suppose | suppose | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 said | ccomp |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 get | nsubj |
| 6 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 suppose | ccomp |
| 7 | through | through | ADP | _ | 8 safely | case |
| 8 | safely | safely | ADV | _ | 6 get | obl |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 suppose | punct |
| 10 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 suppose | punct |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 idiot | det |
| 13 | idiot | idiot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 said | nsubj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | suppose | infinitive | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | get | present | you | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme through safely=Destination | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the idiot | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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