The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 32, sentence 18
But the youths made a sign for the fight to stop, and said:
Who acts: youths · What happens: make, stop, say · To what, where: sign · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 32. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (youths), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 made | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 youths | det |
| 3 | youths | youth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 made | nsubj |
| 4 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 sign | det |
| 6 | sign | sign | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 made | obj |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 fight | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 fight | det |
| 9 | fight | fight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sign | nmod |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 stop | mark |
| 11 | stop | stop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 sign | acl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 said | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 said | cc |
| 14 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 made | conj |
| 15 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 4 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | the youths | a sign | for the fight | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: agent=Agent sign=Product for fight=Asset | |||
| 2 | stop | to-infinitive | the youths not said here | a sign not said here | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the youths 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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