The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 34, sentence 103
‘And who will restore you to your proper shapes,’ said Bellah, drawing the knife from her pocket.
Who acts: Bellah · What happens: restore, say, draw · To what, where: you, proper shapes, knife, pocket · 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 (Bellah), 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 restore | punct |
| 2 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 restore | cc |
| 3 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 restore | nsubj |
| 4 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 restore | aux |
| 5 | restore | restore | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 said | ccomp |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 restore | obj |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 shapes | case |
| 8 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 shapes | nmod:poss |
| 9 | proper | proper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 shapes | amod |
| 10 | shapes | shape | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 restore | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 restore | punct |
| 12 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 restore | punct |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | Bellah | Bellah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 said | nsubj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 drawing | punct |
| 16 | drawing | draw | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 said | advcl |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 knife | det |
| 18 | knife | knife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 drawing | obj |
| 19 | from | from | ADP | _ | 21 pocket | case |
| 20 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 pocket | nmod:poss |
| 21 | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 drawing | obl | ||
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | restore | future | you | your proper shapes | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Theme to shape=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Bellah | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | draw | gerund | Bellah not said here | the knife | Bellah's pocket | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent knife=Theme from pocket=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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