The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 56
‘Well, open it wide enough for me to look in,’ said the lion, drawing a little nearer.
Who acts: me · What happens: open, look in, say, draw · To what, where: bag, lion · 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 (me), 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 open | punct |
| 2 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 4 open | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Well | punct |
| 4 | open | open | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 said | ccomp |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 open | obj |
| 6 | wide | wide | ADV | _ | 4 open | advmod |
| 7 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 4 open | advmod |
| 8 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 11 look | mark |
| 9 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 look | nsubj |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 look | mark |
| 11 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 open | advcl |
| 12 | in | in | ADV | _ | 11 look | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 open | punct |
| 14 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 open | punct |
| 15 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 lion | det |
| 17 | lion | lion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 said | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 drawing | punct |
| 19 | drawing | draw | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 said | advcl |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 little | det |
| 21 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 nearer | obl |
| 22 | nearer | near | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 19 drawing | xcomp |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | open | infinitive | bag | enough, wide property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme | ||||
| 2 | look in | to-infinitive | me | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the lion | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | draw | gerund | near property | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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