The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 36
‘“Now, little man, I have answered thy question and showed thee my power,” said he.
Who acts: power, thy · What happens: answer, show, say, question · To what, where: little man, power, thee · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 30. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (power, thy), 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 | _ | 10 answered | punct |
| 2 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 man | punct |
| 3 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 little | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Now | punct |
| 5 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 man | amod |
| 6 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 answered | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 man | punct |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 answered | nsubj |
| 9 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 answered | aux |
| 10 | answered | answer | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 said | ccomp |
| 11 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 12 question | nmod:poss |
| 12 | question | question | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 answered | obj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 showed | cc |
| 14 | showed | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 answered | conj |
| 15 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 14 showed | iobj |
| 16 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 power | nmod:poss |
| 17 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 showed | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 answered | punct |
| 19 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 answered | punct |
| 20 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 said | nsubj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert in a quote | present · perfect · passive | little man | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V NP PP»: subject=Theme question=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | show in a quote | past | my power | thee | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent thou=Recipient power=Topic | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | power | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | question in a quote | thy | nom question «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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