The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 57
‘The first boy thou hast when he is seven years old,’ said the giant.
Who acts: first boy, boy · What happens: have, be, say · To what, where: giant · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (first boy, boy), 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 | _ | 6 hast | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 boy | det |
| 3 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 4 boy | amod |
| 4 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 hast | nsubj |
| 5 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 4 boy | nmod |
| 6 | hast | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 said | ccomp |
| 7 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 12 old | mark |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 old | nsubj |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 old | cop |
| 10 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 years | nummod |
| 11 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 old | obl:unmarked |
| 12 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 hast | advcl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 hast | punct |
| 14 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 hast | 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 giant | det |
| 17 | giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 said | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | the first boy thou | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is | present | boy | year | old property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the giant | tree rules |
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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