The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 32, sentence 55
The girl did not speak for a moment, then held out the small loaf and some bacon intended for her dinner.
Who acts: girl, bacon · What happens: not speak, hold out, intend · To what, where: small loaf · 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 (girl, bacon), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 girl | det |
| 2 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 speak | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 speak | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 speak | advmod |
| 5 | speak | speak | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 moment | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 moment | det |
| 8 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 speak | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 held | punct |
| 10 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 11 held | advmod |
| 11 | held | hold | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 speak | advcl |
| 12 | out | out | ADP | _ | 11 held | compound:prt |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 loaf | det |
| 14 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 loaf | amod |
| 15 | loaf | loaf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 held | obj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 intended | cc |
| 17 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 18 bacon | det |
| 18 | bacon | bacon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 intended | nsubj |
| 19 | intended | intend | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 held | conj |
| 20 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 dinner | case |
| 21 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 dinner | nmod:poss |
| 22 | dinner | dinner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 intended | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 speak | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not speak speech: other | past · do-support | the girl | moment | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | hold out | participle | the girl not said here | the small loaf | then | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent loaf=Theme | |||
| 3 | intend | past | some bacon | for girl's dinner | vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: 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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