The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 86
‘Pretty she is,’ answered the shoemaker, ‘but no daughter of mine.’
Who acts: girl · What happens: be, answer · To what, where: shoemaker
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 (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 | _ | 4 is | punct |
| 2 | Pretty | pretty | ADV | _ | 4 is | advmod |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 is | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 answered | punct |
| 6 | ’ | ' | CCONJ | _ | 7 answered | cc |
| 7 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 is | parataxis |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 shoemaker | det |
| 9 | shoemaker | shoemaker | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 answered | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 daughter | punct |
| 11 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 daughter | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 daughter | cc |
| 13 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 14 daughter | det |
| 14 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 answered | conj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 mine | case |
| 16 | mine | my | PRON | Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 daughter | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 is | punct |
| 18 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 is | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | present | girl | pretty property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | past | the shoemaker | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent shoemaker=Eventuality |
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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