The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 24
‘Try once more,’ said she, and she laid a finger against the tree and bade him put his foot on it.
Who acts: hope, sun · What happens: try, say, lay, put · To what, where: finger, tree, foot, bade · 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 (hope, sun), 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 | _ | 2 Try | punct |
| 2 | Try | try | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 said | ccomp |
| 3 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 4 more | advmod |
| 4 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 2 Try | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Try | punct |
| 6 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Try | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 said | nsubj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 laid | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 laid | cc |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 laid | nsubj |
| 12 | laid | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 said | conj |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 finger | det |
| 14 | finger | finger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 laid | obj |
| 15 | against | against | ADP | _ | 17 tree | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 tree | det |
| 17 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 laid | obl |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 bade | cc |
| 19 | bade | bade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 tree | conj |
| 20 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 put | nsubj |
| 21 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 bade | acl:relcl |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 foot | nmod:poss |
| 23 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 put | obj |
| 24 | on | on | ADP | _ | 25 it | case |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 put | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | try | infinitive | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | hope | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | lay | past | hope | a finger | the tree and bade | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent finger=Theme against tree=Destination | |||
| 4 | put | past | sun | sun's foot | bade | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent foot=Theme on it=Destination |
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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