The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 32, sentence 76
‘He has grown tired of me,’ answered Tephany in a trembling voice, ‘and he makes excuses to stay away.
Who acts: maiden, excuses · What happens: grow, answer, make, stay away · To what, where: Tephany, trembling voice, excuses
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 (maiden, excuses), 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 grown | punct |
| 2 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 grown | nsubj |
| 3 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 grown | aux |
| 4 | grown | grow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 answered | advcl |
| 5 | tired | tired | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 grown | xcomp |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 me | case |
| 7 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 tired | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 grown | punct |
| 9 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 answered | punct |
| 10 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | Tephany | Tephany | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 answered | obj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 voice | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 voice | det |
| 14 | trembling | trembling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 voice | compound |
| 15 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 answered | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 makes | punct |
| 17 | ‘ | ‘ | PUNCT | _ | 20 makes | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 makes | cc |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 makes | nsubj |
| 20 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 answered | conj |
| 21 | excuses | excuse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 makes | obj |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 stay | mark |
| 23 | stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 makes | xcomp |
| 24 | away | away | ADV | _ | 23 stay | advmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | present · perfect | maiden | tired property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | past | Tephany | a trembling voice | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent tephany=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | make | present | maiden | excuses | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | stay away | to-infinitive | excuses not said here | away property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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