The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 53

‘Come,’ exclaimed the lion, whose mouth watered, ‘show me the birds!

Who acts: lion · What happens: come, exclaim, water, show · To what, where: birds, me · 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 (lion), 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 Come	punct
2	Come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 exclaimed	ccomp
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Come	punct
4	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Come	punct
5	exclaimed	exclaim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 lion	det
7	lion	lion	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 watered	nsubj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 mouth	punct
9	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	10 mouth	nmod:poss
10	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 lion	conj
11	watered	water	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 exclaimed	ccomp
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 show	punct
13	‘	'	PUNCT	_	14 show	punct
14	show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 watered	advcl
15	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 show	iobj
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 birds	det
17	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 show	obj
18	!	!	PUNCT	_	5 exclaimed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	come	infinitive				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	exclaim speech: express	past				vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	water	past	the lion and the lion and the lion's mouth's mouth			vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent
4	show	infinitive	the lion and the lion and the lion's mouth's mouth not said here	the birds	me	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient bird=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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