The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 33
‘Now pull me up again,’ called he; but as he spoke a great cry arose that the palace was burning.
Who acts: you, path, palace · What happens: pull up, call, speak, arise, burn · To what, where: me, path, great cry · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, path, palace), 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 pull | punct |
| 2 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 pull | advmod |
| 3 | pull | pull | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 pull | obj |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 pull | compound:prt |
| 6 | again | again | ADV | _ | 3 pull | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 pull | punct |
| 8 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 pull | punct |
| 9 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 pull | parataxis |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 called | obj |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 arose | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 arose | cc |
| 13 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 15 spoke | mark |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 spoke | nsubj |
| 15 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 arose | advcl |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 cry | det |
| 17 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 cry | amod |
| 18 | cry | cry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 spoke | obj |
| 19 | arose | arise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 pull | parataxis |
| 20 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 24 burning | mark |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 palace | det |
| 22 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 burning | nsubj |
| 23 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 burning | aux |
| 24 | burning | burn | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 arose | advcl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 pull | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pull up | imperative | you not said here | me | now; again | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP ADJP-Result»: agent=Agent i=Result | |||
| 2 | call | participle | path | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | |||||
| 3 | speak speech: other | past | path | a great cry | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | arise | past | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 5 | burn | past · progressive | the palace | vn light_emission-43.1 «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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