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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

punctccadvmodauxnsubjccompmarkxcompobjpunctnmod:possamodobjpunctpunctdetobjpunctccnsubjparataxisiobjdetobjnsubjauxacl:relclpunctccconjmarkdetnsubjauxamodadvclcasenmodpunctroot‘PUNCTAndCCONJhowADVareAUXyouPRONgoingVERBtoPARTstopVERBthatPRON,PUNCTmyPRONfineADJfellowNOUN?PUNCT’PUNCTinquiredVERBtheDETkoriganNOUN;PUNCTandCCONJPeronnikPROPNshowedVERBhimPRONtheDETsnareNOUNhePRONhadAUXpreparedVERB,PUNCTandCCONJremarkedVERBthatSCONJnoDETbirdNOUNcouldAUXpossibleADJescapeNOUNfromADPitPRON.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1‘'PUNCT_6 goingpunct
2AndandCCONJ_6 goingcc
3howhowADVPronType=Int6 goingadvmod
4arebeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin6 goingaux
5youyouPRONCase=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs6 goingnsubj
6goinggoVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part16 inquiredccomp
7totoPART_8 stopmark
8stopstopVERBVerbForm=Inf6 goingxcomp
9thatthatPRONNumber=Sing PronType=Dem8 stopobj
10,,PUNCT_6 goingpunct
11mymyPRONCase=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs13 fellownmod:poss
12finefineADJDegree=Pos13 fellowamod
13fellowfellowNOUNNumber=Sing6 goingobj
14??PUNCT_6 goingpunct
15’'PUNCT_6 goingpunct
16inquiredinquireVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
17thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art18 korigandet
18korigankoriganNOUNNumber=Sing16 inquiredobj
19;;PUNCT_22 showedpunct
20andandCCONJ_22 showedcc
21PeronnikPeronnikPROPNNumber=Sing22 showednsubj
22showedshowVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin16 inquiredparataxis
23himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs22 showediobj
24thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art25 snaredet
25snaresnareNOUNNumber=Sing22 showedobj
26hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs28 preparednsubj
27hadhaveAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin28 preparedaux
28preparedprepareVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part25 snareacl:relcl
29,,PUNCT_31 remarkedpunct
30andandCCONJ_31 remarkedcc
31remarkedremarkVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass22 showedconj
32thatthatSCONJ_37 escapemark
33nonoDETPronType=Neg34 birddet
34birdbirdNOUNNumber=Sing37 escapensubj
35couldcouldAUXVerbForm=Fin37 escapeaux
36possiblepossibleADJDegree=Pos37 escapeamod
37escapeescapeNOUNNumber=Sing31 remarkedadvcl
38fromfromADP_39 itcase
39ititPRONCase=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs37 escapenmod
40..PUNCT_16 inquiredpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1gopresent · progressiveyoumy fine fellowtree rules
2stopto-infinitiveyou not said herethatvn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality that=Eventuality
3inquire speech: otherpastthe koriganvn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent korigan=Recipient clause=Topic
4showpastPeronnikthe snaremagicianvn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient snare=Topic
5preparepast · perfectPeronnikthe snare not said herevn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent snare=Patient
6remark speech: assertparticiplePeronnik not said herevn lecture-37.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7escapecouldno birdescapetree 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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