The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 44
‘Not yet,’ answered the apple at the head of the bed, and the giant turned over, and soon was snoring as loudly as before.
Who acts: giant · What happens: answer, turn over, snore · To what, where: apple, head
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 (giant), 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 | _ | 3 yet | punct |
| 2 | Not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 3 yet | advmod |
| 3 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 6 answered | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 yet | punct |
| 5 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 yet | punct |
| 6 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 apple | det |
| 8 | apple | apple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 answered | obj |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 head | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 head | det |
| 11 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 answered | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 bed | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 bed | det |
| 14 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 head | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 turned | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 turned | cc |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 giant | det |
| 18 | giant | giant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 turned | nsubj |
| 19 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 answered | conj |
| 20 | over | over | ADP | _ | 19 turned | compound:prt |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 snoring | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 snoring | cc |
| 23 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 25 snoring | advmod |
| 24 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 snoring | aux |
| 25 | snoring | snore | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 turned | advcl |
| 26 | as | as | ADV | _ | 27 loudly | advmod |
| 27 | loudly | loudly | ADV | _ | 25 snoring | advmod |
| 28 | as | as | ADP | _ | 29 before | case |
| 29 | before | before | ADV | _ | 25 snoring | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | the apple | the head of the bed | yet | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent apple=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | turn over | past | the giant | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | snore | past · progressive | the giant not said here | loudly, soon property | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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