The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 34, sentence 20
‘You can have it, if you will, Houarn,’ answered the fairy.
Who acts: You · What happens: have, answer · To what, where: half, fairy · 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 (You), 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 | _ | 4 have | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 have | nsubj |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 have | aux |
| 4 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 answered | ccomp |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 have | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 will | punct |
| 7 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 9 will | mark |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 will | nsubj |
| 9 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 have | advcl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 Houarn | punct |
| 11 | Houarn | Houarn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 have | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 have | punct |
| 13 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 have | punct |
| 14 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 fairy | det |
| 16 | fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 answered | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | can | You | half | Houarn obl | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | |||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | past | the fairy | tree rules |
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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