The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 34, sentence 10
‘Come in,’ said the Groac’h, rising to her feet.
Who acts: Groac’h · What happens: come in, say, rise · To what, where: feet · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 34. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Groac’h), 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 | _ | 2 Come | punct |
| 2 | Come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 said | ccomp |
| 3 | in | in | ADV | _ | 2 Come | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Come | punct |
| 5 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Come | punct |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Groac’h | det |
| 8 | Groac’h | Groac'h | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 said | nsubj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 rising | punct |
| 10 | rising | rise | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 said | advcl |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 feet | case |
| 12 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 feet | nmod:poss |
| 13 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 rising | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come in | infinitive | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the Groac’h | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | rise | gerund | the Groac’h not said here | Groac’h's feet | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to foot=Initial_Location |
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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