The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 32, sentence 50

‘When the sky is all the roof you have, you rest where you will,’ replied the old woman in trembling tones.

Who acts: sky, you · What happens: be, have, rest, reply · To what, where: roof, old woman, trembling tones

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 (sky, you), 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	_	19 replied	punct
2	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	8 roof	advmod
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 sky	det
4	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 roof	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 roof	cop
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 roof	det:predet
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 roof	det
8	roof	roof	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 replied	obl
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 have	nsubj
10	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 roof	acl:relcl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 rest	punct
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 rest	nsubj
13	rest	rest	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 have	conj
14	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	16 will	advmod
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 will	nsubj
16	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 rest	advcl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 roof	punct
18	’	'	PUNCT	_	19 replied	punct
19	replied	reply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 woman	det
21	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 woman	amod
22	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 replied	obj
23	in	in	ADP	_	25 tones	case
24	trembling	trembling	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 tones	compound
25	tones	tone	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 woman	nmod
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 replied	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	is a	present	the sky	all roof		tree rules
2	have	present	you	all roof not said here		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent roof=Patient
3	rest	present	you			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	reply speech: assert	past		the old woman	trembling tones	vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent woman=Topic

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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