The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 32, sentence 98
‘Oh yes, Aziliez will be there,’ answered Denis, who was quite pleased to see her jealous, ‘and naturally one would go a long way to watch her dance.’
Who acts: Aziliez, Denis, one · What happens: be, answer, see, go, watch, dance · To what, where: Denis, jealous, long way, dance
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 (Aziliez, Denis, one), 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 | _ | 11 answered | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 8 there | discourse |
| 3 | yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 2 Oh | discourse |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 5 | Aziliez | Aziliez | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 there | nsubj |
| 6 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 there | aux |
| 7 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 there | cop |
| 8 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 11 answered | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 there | punct |
| 10 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 there | punct |
| 11 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | Denis | Denis | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 answered | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 pleased | punct |
| 14 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 pleased | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 pleased | cop |
| 16 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 17 pleased | advmod |
| 17 | pleased | pleased | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 Denis | conj |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 see | mark |
| 19 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 pleased | xcomp |
| 20 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 jealous | nmod:poss |
| 21 | jealous | jealous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 see | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 go | punct |
| 23 | ‘ | ‘ | PUNCT | _ | 28 go | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 go | cc |
| 25 | naturally | naturally | ADV | _ | 28 go | advmod |
| 26 | one | one | PRON | Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 go | nsubj |
| 27 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 go | aux |
| 28 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 see | conj |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 way | det |
| 30 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 way | amod |
| 31 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 go | obl |
| 32 | to | to | PART | _ | 33 watch | mark |
| 33 | watch | watch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 31 way | acl |
| 34 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 dance | nmod:poss |
| 35 | dance | dance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 watch | obj |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 answered | punct |
| 37 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | future | Aziliez | there property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | past | Denis | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent denis=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | is | past | Denis | pleased property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | see | to-infinitive | Denis not said here | Aziliez's jealous | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer jealous=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | go | would | one | a long way | naturally property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 6 | watch | to-infinitive | one not said here | Aziliez's dance | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dance=Theme | ||||
| 7 | dance | Aziliez | nom dance «communication transitive»: 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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