The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 12
‘The best of news,’ answered the maiden, ‘for I have gained the object of my mission.
Who acts: best, I · What happens: answer, gain · To what, where: object
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 (best, I), 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 best | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 best | det |
| 3 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 8 answered | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 news | case |
| 5 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 best | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 best | punct |
| 7 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 best | punct |
| 8 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 maiden | det |
| 10 | maiden | maiden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 answered | xcomp |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 gained | punct |
| 12 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 16 gained | punct |
| 13 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 16 gained | mark |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 gained | nsubj |
| 15 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 gained | aux |
| 16 | gained | gain | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 answered | parataxis |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 object | det |
| 18 | object | object | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 gained | obj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 mission | case |
| 20 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 mission | nmod:poss |
| 21 | mission | mission | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 object | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | the best | maiden property | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | gain | present · perfect | I | the object of my mission | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent object=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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