The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 47
‘Not yet,’ said the apple at the foot of the bed, and the giant was satisfied.
Who acts: giant · What happens: say, be · To what, where: apple, foot · 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 (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 said | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 yet | punct |
| 5 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 yet | punct |
| 6 | said | say | 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 said | obj |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 foot | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 foot | det |
| 11 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 said | 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 foot | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 satisfied | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 satisfied | cc |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 giant | det |
| 18 | giant | giant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 satisfied | nsubj |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 satisfied | cop |
| 20 | satisfied | satisfied | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 said | ccomp |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the apple | the foot of the bed | yet | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent apple=Topic | |||
| 2 | is | past | the giant | satisfied property | 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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