The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 34
‘And how are you going to stop that, my fine fellow?’ inquired the korigan; and Peronnik showed him the snare he had prepared, and remarked that no bird could possible escape from it.
Who acts: you, Peronnik, bird · What happens: go, stop, inquire, show, prepare, remark · To what, where: fine fellow, that, korigan, snare, magician, escape · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 27. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, Peronnik, bird), 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 going | punct |
| 2 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 going | cc |
| 3 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 going | advmod |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 going | aux |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 going | nsubj |
| 6 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 inquired | ccomp |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 stop | mark |
| 8 | stop | stop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 going | xcomp |
| 9 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 stop | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 going | punct |
| 11 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 fellow | nmod:poss |
| 12 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 fellow | amod |
| 13 | fellow | fellow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 going | obj |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 going | punct |
| 15 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 going | punct |
| 16 | inquired | inquire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 korigan | det |
| 18 | korigan | korigan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 inquired | obj |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 showed | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 showed | cc |
| 21 | Peronnik | Peronnik | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 showed | nsubj |
| 22 | showed | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 inquired | parataxis |
| 23 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 showed | iobj |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 snare | det |
| 25 | snare | snare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 showed | obj |
| 26 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 prepared | nsubj |
| 27 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 prepared | aux |
| 28 | prepared | prepare | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 25 snare | acl:relcl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 remarked | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 remarked | cc |
| 31 | remarked | remark | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 showed | conj |
| 32 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 37 escape | mark |
| 33 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 34 bird | det |
| 34 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 escape | nsubj |
| 35 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 37 escape | aux |
| 36 | possible | possible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 escape | amod |
| 37 | escape | escape | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 remarked | advcl |
| 38 | from | from | ADP | _ | 39 it | case |
| 39 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 escape | nmod |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 inquired | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | present · progressive | you | my fine fellow | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | stop | to-infinitive | you not said here | that | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality that=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | inquire speech: other | past | the korigan | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent korigan=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | show | past | Peronnik | the snare | magician | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient snare=Topic | |||
| 5 | prepare | past · perfect | Peronnik | the snare not said here | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent snare=Patient | ||||
| 6 | remark speech: assert | participle | Peronnik not said here | vn lecture-37.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 7 | escape | could | no bird | escape | tree rules |
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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