The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 80
Would the lady be there, as the old man had told him?
Who acts: lady · What happens: be, tell · To what, where: old man, instant · 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 (lady), 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 | Would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 there | aux |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 lady | det |
| 3 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 there | nsubj |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 there | cop |
| 5 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 there | punct |
| 7 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 12 told | mark |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 man | det |
| 9 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 man | amod |
| 10 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 told | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 told | aux |
| 12 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 there | advcl |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 told | iobj |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 there | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | would | the lady | there property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | past · perfect · passive | the old man | instant | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient he=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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