The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 83
‘Come down,’ he said, ‘for a while thou canst stay in my house,’ and glad enough the girl was to come.
Who acts: shoemaker, thou, girl · What happens: come down, say, stay, come · To what, where: house · 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 (shoemaker, thou, girl), 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 Come | punct |
| 2 | Come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 said | ccomp |
| 3 | down | down | ADV | _ | 2 Come | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Come | punct |
| 5 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Come | punct |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 said | nsubj |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 stay | punct |
| 9 | ‘ | ‘ | PUNCT | _ | 15 stay | punct |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 while | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 while | det |
| 12 | while | while | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 stay | obl |
| 13 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 15 stay | nsubj |
| 14 | canst | can | AUX | Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin | 15 stay | aux |
| 15 | stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 said | ccomp |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 house | case |
| 17 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 house | nmod:poss |
| 18 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 stay | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 stay | punct |
| 20 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 stay | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 glad | cc |
| 22 | glad | glad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 said | ccomp |
| 23 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 22 glad | advmod |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 girl | det |
| 25 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 come | nsubj |
| 26 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 come | aux |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 come | mark |
| 28 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 glad | ccomp |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come down | infinitive | down property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | shoemaker | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | stay | can | thou | my house | while | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in house=Location | |||
| 4 | come | past | the girl | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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