The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 58
‘You will,’ answered the giant, ‘and I must take them home.’
Who acts: I · What happens: answer, take · To what, where: axe · 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 (I), 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 | _ | 6 answered | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 will | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 answered | aux |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 will | punct |
| 5 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 will | punct |
| 6 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 giant | det |
| 8 | giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 answered | xcomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 giant | punct |
| 10 | ‘ | ‘ | PUNCT | _ | 14 take | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 take | cc |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 take | nsubj |
| 13 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 take | aux |
| 14 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 answered | ccomp |
| 15 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 take | obj |
| 16 | home | home | ADV | _ | 14 take | advmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 take | punct |
| 18 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | future | giant property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | take | must | I | axe | home property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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