The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 34, sentence 28
‘Then the sooner it is done the better,’ said the Groac’h, and gave orders to her servants.
Who acts: Groac’h · What happens: do, say, give · To what, where: offer, orders, servants · 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 | _ | 7 done | punct |
| 2 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 sooner | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 sooner | det |
| 4 | sooner | soon | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 7 done | advmod |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 done | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 done | aux:pass |
| 7 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 said | ccomp |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 better | det |
| 9 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 7 done | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 done | punct |
| 11 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 done | punct |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Groac’h | det |
| 14 | Groac’h | Groac'h | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 said | nsubj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 gave | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 gave | cc |
| 17 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 said | conj |
| 18 | orders | order | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 gave | obj |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 servants | case |
| 20 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 servants | nmod:poss |
| 21 | servants | servant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 gave | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | present · passive | offer | the better obl; soon property | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the Groac’h | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | give | past | the Groac’h not said here | orders | Groac’h's servants | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent order=Theme to servant=Recipient |
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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