The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 40
‘Sire, this morning we were all playing tennis in the court, the prince and this gentleman with the rest, when there broke out some dispute about the game.
Who acts: we · What happens: play, break out · To what, where: tennis, court, Sire
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 (we), 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 Sire | punct |
| 2 | Sire | sire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 broke | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 playing | punct |
| 4 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 morning | det |
| 5 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 playing | obl:unmarked |
| 6 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 playing | nsubj |
| 7 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 playing | aux |
| 8 | all | all | ADV | _ | 9 playing | advmod |
| 9 | playing | play | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 Sire | acl |
| 10 | tennis | tennis | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 playing | obj |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 court | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 court | det |
| 13 | court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 playing | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 prince | punct |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 prince | det |
| 16 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 court | appos |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 gentleman | cc |
| 18 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 19 gentleman | det |
| 19 | gentleman | gentleman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 court | conj |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 rest | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 rest | det |
| 22 | rest | rest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 gentleman | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 broke | punct |
| 24 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 26 broke | advmod |
| 25 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 26 broke | expl |
| 26 | broke | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 27 | out | out | ADP | _ | 26 broke | compound:prt |
| 28 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 29 dispute | det |
| 29 | dispute | dispute | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 broke | obj |
| 30 | about | about | ADP | _ | 32 game | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 game | det |
| 32 | game | game | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 dispute | nmod |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 26 broke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | play | past · progressive | we | tennis | the court and this gentleman with the rest | morning | all property | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tennis=Theme | |
| 2 | break out | past | Sire | there | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer dispute=Patient |
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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