The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 55
‘I would do it with pleasure,’ answered the idiot, ‘but if I once open the bag they will all fly away.’
Who acts: I, birds · What happens: do, answer, open, fly away · To what, where: master, idiot, bag
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 (I, birds), 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 | _ | 4 do | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 do | nsubj |
| 3 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 do | aux |
| 4 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 do | obj |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 pleasure | case |
| 7 | pleasure | pleasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 do | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 answered | punct |
| 9 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 answered | punct |
| 10 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 do | parataxis |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 idiot | det |
| 12 | idiot | idiot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 answered | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 ‘ | punct |
| 14 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 answered | punct |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 25 fly | cc |
| 16 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 19 open | mark |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 open | nsubj |
| 18 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 19 open | advmod |
| 19 | open | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 fly | advcl |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 bag | det |
| 21 | bag | bag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 open | obj |
| 22 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 fly | nsubj |
| 23 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 fly | aux |
| 24 | all | all | ADV | _ | 25 fly | advmod |
| 25 | fly | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 ‘ | conj |
| 26 | away | away | ADV | _ | 25 fly | advmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 do | punct |
| 28 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 do | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | would | I | master | with pleasure | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | past | the idiot | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent idiot=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | open a condition, not said to happen | present | I | the bag | once property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location bag=Theme | |||
| 4 | fly away | future | birds = bird | all, away property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=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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