The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 5
‘Indeed, father, it is safe in my pocket,’ replied she, taking it out as she spoke; and they all three looked at each other and remained silent.
Who acts: father, she, they · What happens: be, reply, take out, speak, look, remain · To what, where: pocket, thief · 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 (father, she, they), 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 | _ | 8 safe | punct |
| 2 | Indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 4 father | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Indeed | punct |
| 4 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 safe | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 father | punct |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 safe | nsubj |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 safe | cop |
| 8 | safe | safe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 replied | ccomp |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 pocket | case |
| 10 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 pocket | nmod:poss |
| 11 | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 safe | obl | ||
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 safe | punct |
| 13 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 safe | punct |
| 14 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 replied | nsubj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 taking | punct |
| 17 | taking | take | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 replied | advcl |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 taking | obj |
| 19 | out | out | ADP | _ | 17 taking | compound:prt |
| 20 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 22 spoke | mark |
| 21 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 spoke | nsubj |
| 22 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 taking | advcl |
| 23 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 28 looked | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 looked | cc |
| 25 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 looked | nsubj |
| 26 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 27 three | det |
| 27 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 28 looked | nsubj |
| 28 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 replied | parataxis |
| 29 | at | at | ADP | _ | 30 each | case |
| 30 | each | each | DET | ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp | 28 looked | obl |
| 31 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 each | fixed |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 remained | cc |
| 33 | remained | remain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 looked | conj |
| 34 | silent | silent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 remained | xcomp |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | father | my pocket | safe property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | past | she | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | take out | gerund | she not said here | thief | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 4 | speak speech: other | past | she | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | look | past | they | at each | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at each=Theme | ||||
| 6 | remain | past | they not said here | silent property | vn exist-47.1 «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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