The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 101
‘I am Luned,’ replied a voice from a cave so hidden by bushes and green hanging plants that Owen had not seen it.
Who acts: I, Luned, Owen · What happens: be, reply, hide, hang, not see · To what, where: Luned, voice, cave, plants
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 31. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, Luned, Owen), 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 Luned | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 Luned | nsubj |
| 3 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 Luned | cop |
| 4 | Luned | Luned | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 replied | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 Luned | punct |
| 6 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 Luned | punct |
| 7 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 voice | det |
| 9 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 replied | obj |
| 10 | from | from | ADP | _ | 12 cave | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 cave | det |
| 12 | cave | cave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 replied | obl |
| 13 | so | so | ADV | _ | 14 hidden | advmod |
| 14 | hidden | hide | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 replied | advcl |
| 15 | by | by | ADP | _ | 16 bushes | case |
| 16 | bushes | bush | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 hidden | obl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 hanging | cc |
| 18 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 hanging | amod |
| 19 | hanging | hang | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 hidden | conj |
| 20 | plants | plant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 hanging | obj |
| 21 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 25 seen | mark |
| 22 | Owen | Owen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 seen | nsubj |
| 23 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 seen | aux |
| 24 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 25 seen | advmod |
| 25 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 19 hanging | advcl |
| 26 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 seen | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | I | Luned | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | past | Luned | a voice | a cave | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent voice=Topic | |||
| 3 | hide | participle | Luned not said here | by bushes | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by bush=Location | ||||
| 4 | hang | gerund | Luned not said here | plants | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plant=Patient | ||||
| 5 | not see | past · perfect | Owen | voice | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |
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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