The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 49
‘Larks?’ cried the lion, licking his long whiskers.
Who acts: Larks · What happens: cry, lick · To what, where: lion, long whiskers
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 (Larks), 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 | _ | 2 Larks | punct |
| 2 | Larks | lark | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 cried | nsubj |
| 3 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 Larks | punct |
| 4 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Larks | punct |
| 5 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 lion | det |
| 7 | lion | lion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 cried | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 licking | punct |
| 9 | licking | lick | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 cried | advcl |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 whiskers | nmod:poss |
| 11 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 whiskers | amod |
| 12 | whiskers | whisker | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 licking | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry speech: express | past | Larks | the lion | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lion=Topic | ||||
| 2 | lick | gerund | Larks not said here | lark's long whiskers | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent whisker=Source |
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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