The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 32, sentence 54
‘They all died long, long ago,’ she answered, ‘and the only friends I have are strangers with kind hearts.’
Who acts: friends, woman, I, only friends · What happens: die, answer, have, be · To what, where: only friends, strangers
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 (friends, woman, I, only friends), 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 | _ | 4 died | punct |
| 2 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 died | nsubj |
| 3 | all | all | ADV | _ | 4 died | advmod |
| 4 | died | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 died | xcomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 ago | punct |
| 7 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 8 ago | advmod |
| 8 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 4 died | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 answered | punct |
| 10 | ’ | ' | CCONJ | _ | 12 answered | cc |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 answered | nsubj |
| 12 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 died | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 strangers | punct |
| 14 | ‘ | ‘ | PUNCT | _ | 22 strangers | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 strangers | cc |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 friends | det |
| 17 | only | only | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 friends | amod |
| 18 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 strangers | nsubj |
| 19 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 have | nsubj |
| 20 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 friends | acl:relcl |
| 21 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 strangers | cop |
| 22 | strangers | stranger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 answered | obl |
| 23 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 hearts | case |
| 24 | kind | kind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 hearts | amod |
| 25 | hearts | heart | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 strangers | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 died | punct |
| 27 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 died | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | die | past | friends = friend | ago, all, long property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | past | woman | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | have | present | I | the only friends not said here | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent friend=Patient | ||||
| 4 | is a | present | the only friends | strangers | with kind hearts | tree rules |
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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