The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 32, sentence 90
Of course they heard of her jests, and shook their heads saying:
Who acts: jokes, Tephany · What happens: hear, shake, say, jest · To what, where: heads · 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 (jokes, Tephany), 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 | Of | of | ADP | _ | 2 course | case |
| 2 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 heard | obl |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 heard | nsubj |
| 4 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 jests | case |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 jests | nmod:poss |
| 7 | jests | jest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 heard | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 shook | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 shook | cc |
| 10 | shook | shake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 heard | conj |
| 11 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 heads | nmod:poss |
| 12 | heads | head | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 shook | obj |
| 13 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 shook | advcl |
| 14 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 4 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | jokes = joke | of course; of Tephany's jests | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of course=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | shake | past | jokes = joke not said here | jokes's heads | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent head=Patient | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | gerund | jokes = joke not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | jest | Tephany | nom jest «communication intransitive»: poss=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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