The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 34, sentence 33
‘It is nothing but the noise of the wood sparkling,’ she answered; but it did not sound the least like that to Houarn.
Who acts: fish, wood, Groac’h · What happens: be, sparkle, answer, not sound, noise · To what, where: nothing, least, Houarn
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 (fish, wood, 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 | _ | 4 nothing | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 nothing | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 nothing | cop |
| 4 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | root | root |
| 5 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 noise | cc |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 noise | det |
| 7 | noise | noise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 nothing | conj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 wood | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 wood | det |
| 10 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 noise | nmod |
| 11 | sparkling | sparkle | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 wood | acl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 answered | punct |
| 13 | ’ | ' | CCONJ | _ | 15 answered | cc |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 answered | nsubj |
| 15 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 sparkling | parataxis |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 sound | punct |
| 17 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 21 sound | cc |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 sound | nsubj |
| 19 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 sound | aux |
| 20 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 sound | advmod |
| 21 | sound | sound | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 nothing | parataxis |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 least | det |
| 23 | least | least | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 21 sound | obl |
| 24 | like | like | ADP | _ | 25 that | case |
| 25 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 21 sound | obl |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 Houarn | case |
| 27 | Houarn | Houarn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 sound | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 nothing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | fish | nothing | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | sparkle | gerund | the wood not said here | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | answer speech: assert | past | Groac’h = groac'h | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | not sound | past · do-support | fish | the least | Houarn | like that | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ PP.experiencer»: agent=Stimulus to houarn=Experiencer | ||
| 5 | noise | the wood | nom noise «event intransitive»: of=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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