The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 92
‘Why, it is surely the idiot, riding my colt thirteen months old!’
Who acts: head, idiot · What happens: be, ride · To what, where: idiot, colt
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 (head, idiot), 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 | _ | 8 idiot | punct |
| 2 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 idiot | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Why | punct |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 idiot | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 idiot | cop |
| 6 | surely | surely | ADV | _ | 8 idiot | advmod |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 idiot | det |
| 8 | idiot | idiot | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 riding | punct |
| 10 | riding | ride | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 idiot | acl |
| 11 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 colt | nmod:poss |
| 12 | colt | colt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 riding | obj |
| 13 | thirteen | thirteen | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 months | nummod |
| 14 | months | month | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 old | obl:unmarked |
| 15 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 riding | obl |
| 16 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 8 idiot | punct |
| 17 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 idiot | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | head | the idiot | surely property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | ride | gerund | the idiot not said here | my colt | old obl | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent colt=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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