The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 95
‘Next I shall find the flower that laughs, protected by a lion whose mane is formed of vipers.
Who acts: I, flower · What happens: find, laugh, protect, form · To what, where: flower, mane
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 (I, flower), 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 | Next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 find | amod |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 find | nsubj |
| 4 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 find | aux |
| 5 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 flower | det |
| 7 | flower | flower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 find | obj |
| 8 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 laughs | nsubj |
| 9 | laughs | laugh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 flower | acl:relcl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 protected | punct |
| 11 | protected | protect | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 flower | acl |
| 12 | by | by | ADP | _ | 14 lion | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 lion | det |
| 14 | lion | lion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 protected | obl |
| 15 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 16 mane | nmod:poss |
| 16 | mane | mane | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 formed | nsubj |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 formed | aux:pass |
| 18 | formed | form | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 lion | acl:relcl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 vipers | case |
| 20 | vipers | viper | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 formed | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 find | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | shall | I | the flower | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flower=Topic | ||||
| 2 | laugh | present | the flower | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | protect | participle | the flower not said here | by a lion | vn defend-72.3 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | form | present · passive | mane | of vipers | vn appear-48.1.1 «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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