The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 80
‘The butler’s son is the same age as ours,’ whispered the queen; ‘he will not know the difference,’ and she took the child and dressed him in the prince’s clothes, and the giant let him away along the road.
Who acts: son, same age, age · What happens: be, whisper, not know, take, dress, let away · To what, where: same age, queen, difference, child, son, clothes
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 (son, same age, age), 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 | _ | 9 age | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 butler | det |
| 3 | butler | butler | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 son | nmod:poss |
| 4 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 3 butler | case |
| 5 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 age | nsubj |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 age | cop |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 age | det |
| 8 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 age | amod |
| 9 | age | age | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 whispered | nsubj |
| 10 | as | as | ADP | _ | 11 ours | case |
| 11 | ours | our | PRON | Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 age | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 age | punct |
| 13 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 age | punct |
| 14 | whispered | whisper | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 queen | det |
| 16 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 whispered | obj |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 know | punct |
| 18 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 22 know | punct |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 know | nsubj |
| 20 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 know | aux |
| 21 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 22 know | advmod |
| 22 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 whispered | parataxis |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 difference | det |
| 24 | difference | difference | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 know | obj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 know | punct |
| 26 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 22 know | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 took | cc |
| 28 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 took | nsubj |
| 29 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 whispered | conj |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 child | det |
| 31 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 took | obj |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 dressed | cc |
| 33 | dressed | dress | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 took | conj |
| 34 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 dressed | obj |
| 35 | in | in | ADP | _ | 39 clothes | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 prince | det |
| 37 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 clothes | nmod:poss |
| 38 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 37 prince | case |
| 39 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 33 dressed | obl |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 let | punct |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 let | cc |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 giant | det |
| 43 | giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 let | advcl |
| 44 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 14 whispered | parataxis |
| 45 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 44 let | obj |
| 46 | away | away | ADV | _ | 44 let | advmod |
| 47 | along | along | ADP | _ | 49 road | case |
| 48 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 49 road | det |
| 49 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 let | obl |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 whispered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the butler's son | the same age | as ours | tree rules | |||
| 2 | whisper speech: assert | past | the same age | the queen | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent queen=Topic | ||||
| 3 | not know | future | son | the difference | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer difference=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | take | past | age | the child | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument child=Destination | ||||
| 5 | dress | past | age not said here | son | the prince's clothes | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient | |||
| 6 | let away | infinitive | son | along the road; away property | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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