The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 33, sentence 82
‘Yes,’ answered Bellah, with a deep sigh; ‘but we live in such hard times, and at the last fair the price of pigs had risen again.’
Who acts: we · What happens: answer, live, rise · To what, where: Bellah, price, last fair
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 (we), 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 | _ | 5 answered | punct |
| 2 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 5 answered | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Yes | punct |
| 4 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Yes | punct |
| 5 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | Bellah | Bellah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 answered | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 sigh | punct |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 sigh | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 sigh | det |
| 10 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 sigh | amod |
| 11 | sigh | sigh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 Bellah | appos |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 live | punct |
| 13 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 but | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 live | cc |
| 15 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 live | nsubj |
| 16 | live | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 answered | conj |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 times | case |
| 18 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 times | amod |
| 19 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 times | amod |
| 20 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 live | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 risen | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 risen | cc |
| 23 | at | at | ADP | _ | 26 fair | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 fair | det |
| 25 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 fair | amod |
| 26 | fair | fair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 risen | obl |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 price | det |
| 28 | price | price | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 risen | nsubj:pass |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 pigs | case |
| 30 | pigs | pig | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 price | nmod |
| 31 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 risen | aux |
| 32 | risen | rise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 live | conj |
| 33 | again | again | ADV | _ | 32 risen | advmod |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 answered | punct |
| 35 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | Bellah | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent bellah=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | live | present | we | time | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | rise | past · perfect · passive | the price of pigs | the last fair | again | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=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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