The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 33, sentence 61
Do you think it would do any good to beat her a little?’ she added to Denis, who shook his head.
Who acts: you, pearl, Barbaik, Denis · What happens: think, do, beat, add, shake · To what, where: good, Barbaik, Denis, head · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 33. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, pearl, Barbaik, Denis), 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 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 think | aux |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 think | nsubj |
| 3 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 do | nsubj |
| 5 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 do | aux |
| 6 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 think | ccomp |
| 7 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 8 good | det |
| 8 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 do | obj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 beat | mark |
| 10 | beat | beat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 good | csubj |
| 11 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 beat | obj |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 little | det |
| 13 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 beat | obl:unmarked |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 think | punct |
| 15 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 think | punct |
| 16 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 added | nsubj |
| 17 | added | add | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 think | parataxis |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 Denis | case |
| 19 | Denis | Denis | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 added | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 shook | punct |
| 21 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 shook | nsubj |
| 22 | shook | shake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 Denis | acl:relcl |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 head | nmod:poss |
| 24 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 shook | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 think | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | present · do-support | you | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | do | would | pearl | any good | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent good=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | beat | to-infinitive | Barbaik | a little obl:unmarked | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location she=Theme | ||||
| 4 | add speech: assert | past | Barbaik | Denis | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent to denis=Co-Patient | ||||
| 5 | shake | past | Denis | farm's head | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent head=Patient |
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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