The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 17
Right glad was the countess to see them, but she looked closely at Owen and said:
Who acts: mistress · What happens: be, see, look, say · To what, where: glad countess, people · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (mistress), 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 | Right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 countess | nmod:unmarked |
| 2 | glad | glad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 countess | amod |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 countess | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 countess | det |
| 5 | countess | countess | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 see | mark |
| 7 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 countess | acl |
| 8 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 see | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 looked | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 looked | cc |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 looked | nsubj |
| 12 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 countess | parataxis |
| 13 | closely | closely | ADV | _ | 12 looked | advmod |
| 14 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 Owen | case |
| 15 | Owen | Owen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 looked | obl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 said | cc |
| 17 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 looked | conj |
| 18 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 5 countess | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the glad countess | Right nmod:unmarked | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | see | to-infinitive | people | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | look | past | mistress | at Owen; closely property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at owen=Theme | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | mistress not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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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