The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 85
‘Thou hast a pretty daughter,’ said they when they beheld the girl sitting at work.
Who acts: Thou, man, girl · What happens: have, say, behold, sit · To what, where: pretty daughter, girl, work · 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 (Thou, man, 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 | _ | 3 hast | punct |
| 2 | Thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 3 hast | nsubj |
| 3 | hast | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 said | ccomp |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 daughter | det |
| 5 | pretty | pretty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 daughter | amod |
| 6 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 hast | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 hast | punct |
| 8 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 hast | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 said | nsubj |
| 11 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 13 beheld | advmod |
| 12 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 beheld | nsubj |
| 13 | beheld | behold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 said | advcl |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 girl | det |
| 15 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 beheld | obj |
| 16 | sitting | sit | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 15 girl | acl |
| 17 | at | at | ADP | _ | 18 work | case |
| 18 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 sitting | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | Thou | a pretty daughter | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Patient | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | man | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | behold | past | man | the girl | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer girl=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | sit | gerund | the girl not said here | work | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at work=Location |
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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