The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 32, sentence 56
‘Take this,’ she said; ‘to-day at any rate you shall dine well,’ and the old woman took it, gazing at Tephany the while.
Who acts: girl, you, old woman · What happens: take, say, dine, gaze · To what, where: this, rate · 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, you, old woman), 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 | _ | 2 Take | punct |
| 2 | Take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 said | ccomp |
| 3 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 Take | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Take | punct |
| 5 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Take | punct |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 said | nsubj |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 dine | punct |
| 9 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 18 dine | punct |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 day | case |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 to | punct |
| 12 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 dine | obl |
| 13 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 rate | case |
| 14 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 15 rate | det |
| 15 | rate | rate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 day | nmod |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 dine | nsubj |
| 17 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 dine | aux |
| 18 | dine | dine | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 said | ccomp |
| 19 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 18 dine | advmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 dine | punct |
| 21 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 18 dine | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 took | cc |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 woman | det |
| 24 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 woman | amod |
| 25 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 took | nsubj |
| 26 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 said | conj |
| 27 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 took | obj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 gazing | punct |
| 29 | gazing | gaze | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 26 took | advcl |
| 30 | at | at | ADP | _ | 31 Tephany | case |
| 31 | Tephany | Tephany | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 gazing | obl |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 while | det |
| 33 | while | while | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 gazing | obl:unmarked |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | infinitive | this | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Theme | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | girl | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | dine | shall | you | day | well property | vn dine-39.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 4 | take | past | the old woman | rate | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 5 | gaze | gerund | the old woman not said here | while | at Tephany | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at tephany=Theme |
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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