The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 34, sentence 17
‘I do not wonder,’ exclaimed Houarn, who now felt quite at home--‘I do not wonder that the people on the earth have so much to say about you.’
Who acts: I, Houarn, people · What happens: not wonder, exclaim, feel, have, say · To what, where: home, much · 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 (I, Houarn, people), 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 wonder | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 wonder | nsubj |
| 3 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 wonder | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 wonder | advmod |
| 5 | wonder | wonder | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 exclaimed | ccomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 wonder | punct |
| 7 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 wonder | punct |
| 8 | exclaimed | exclaim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | Houarn | Houarn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 felt | nsubj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 felt | punct |
| 11 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 felt | nsubj |
| 12 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 13 felt | advmod |
| 13 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 exclaimed | ccomp |
| 14 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 13 felt | advmod |
| 15 | at | at | ADP | _ | 16 home | case |
| 16 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 felt | obl |
| 17 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 22 wonder | punct |
| 18 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 22 wonder | punct |
| 19 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 wonder | nsubj |
| 20 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 wonder | aux |
| 21 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 22 wonder | advmod |
| 22 | wonder | wonder | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 felt | conj |
| 23 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 29 have | mark |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 people | det |
| 25 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 have | nsubj |
| 26 | on | on | ADP | _ | 28 earth | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 earth | det |
| 28 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 people | nmod |
| 29 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 wonder | advcl |
| 30 | so | so | ADV | _ | 31 much | advmod |
| 31 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 have | obj |
| 32 | to | to | PART | _ | 33 say | mark |
| 33 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 31 much | acl |
| 34 | about | about | ADP | _ | 35 you | case |
| 35 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 33 say | obl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 exclaimed | punct |
| 37 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 exclaimed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not wonder speech: ask | present · do-support | I | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | exclaim speech: express | past | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 3 | feel | past | Houarn | home | now | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent at home=Location | |||
| 4 | not wonder speech: ask | present · do-support | I | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 5 | have | present | the people on the earth | much | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent much=Patient | ||||
| 6 | say speech: assert | to-infinitive | about you | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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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