The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 21
‘This is no time for stopping,’ said the voice of the giant’s daughter, as he leant against the trunk to recover his breath.
Who acts: This · What happens: be, stop, say, recover · To what, where: time, voice, breath · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (This), 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 | _ | 5 time | punct |
| 2 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 time | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 time | cop |
| 4 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 5 time | det |
| 5 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | obl:unmarked |
| 6 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 7 stopping | mark |
| 7 | stopping | stop | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 said | advcl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 stopping | punct |
| 9 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 stopping | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 voice | det |
| 12 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | obj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 daughter | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 giant | det |
| 15 | giant | giant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 16 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 15 giant | case |
| 17 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 voice | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 leant | punct |
| 19 | as | as | ADP | _ | 21 leant | case |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 leant | nsubj |
| 21 | leant | leant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | ccomp |
| 22 | against | against | ADP | _ | 24 trunk | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 trunk | det |
| 24 | trunk | trunk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 leant | nmod |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 recover | mark |
| 26 | recover | recover | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 said | advcl |
| 27 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 breath | nmod:poss |
| 28 | breath | breath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 recover | obj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | This | no time | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | stop | gerund | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the voice of the giant's daughter | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent voice=Topic | |||||
| 4 | recover | to-infinitive | sun's breath | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent breath=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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