The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 32, sentence 31
And as for poor people she positively hated them, and declared that such lazy creatures had no business in the world.
Who acts: Barbaik, such lazy creatures · What happens: hate, declare, have · To what, where: food, business, world · 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 (Barbaik, such lazy creatures), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 hated | cc |
| 2 | as | as | ADV | _ | 8 hated | advmod |
| 3 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 people | case |
| 4 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 people | amod |
| 5 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 hated | obl |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 hated | nsubj |
| 7 | positively | positively | ADV | _ | 8 hated | advmod |
| 8 | hated | hate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 hated | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 declared | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 declared | cc |
| 12 | declared | declare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 hated | conj |
| 13 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 17 had | mark |
| 14 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 creatures | amod |
| 15 | lazy | lazy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 creatures | amod |
| 16 | creatures | creature | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 had | nsubj |
| 17 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 declared | ccomp |
| 18 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 19 business | det |
| 19 | business | business | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 had | obj |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 world | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 world | det |
| 22 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 business | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 hated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hate | past | Barbaik | food | for poor people; positively property | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus for people=Attribute | |||
| 2 | declare speech: other | past | Barbaik not said here | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | have | past | such lazy creatures | no business | the world | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent business=Patient |
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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