The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 34, sentence 57
But, rapid as the pace was, it was not rapid enough for Bellah, who stooped and said:
Who acts: pace, Bellah · What happens: be, not be, stoop, say · 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 (pace, 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 3 rapid | cc |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 rapid | punct |
| 3 | rapid | rapid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | as | as | ADP | _ | 6 pace | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 pace | det |
| 6 | pace | pace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 rapid | obl |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 rapid | cop |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 rapid | punct |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 rapid | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 rapid | cop |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 rapid | advmod |
| 12 | rapid | rapid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 rapid | conj |
| 13 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 12 rapid | advmod |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 Bellah | case |
| 15 | Bellah | Bellah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 rapid | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 stooped | punct |
| 17 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 stooped | nsubj |
| 18 | stooped | stoop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 Bellah | acl:relcl |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 said | cc |
| 20 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 stooped | conj |
| 21 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 3 rapid | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | as the pace; rapid property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | not is | past | pace | for Bellah; enough, rapid property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | stoop | past | Bellah | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | Bellah not said here | 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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