The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 34, sentence 70
‘I am sitting on six eggs of stone, and I shall not be set free till they are hatched.’
Who acts: I · What happens: sit, not be, hatch · To what, where: six eggs, eggs
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), 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 sitting | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 sitting | nsubj |
| 3 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 sitting | aux |
| 4 | sitting | sit | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 eggs | case |
| 6 | six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 eggs | nummod |
| 7 | eggs | egg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 sitting | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 stone | case |
| 9 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 eggs | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 free | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 free | cc |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 free | nsubj |
| 13 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 free | aux |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 free | advmod |
| 15 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 17 free | cop |
| 16 | set | set | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 free | amod |
| 17 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 sitting | parataxis |
| 18 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 21 hatched | mark |
| 19 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 hatched | nsubj |
| 20 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 hatched | aux:pass |
| 21 | hatched | hatch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 free | advcl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 sitting | punct |
| 23 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 sitting | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | present · progressive | I | six eggs of stone | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on egg=Location | ||||
| 2 | not is | shall | I | free property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | hatch | present · passive | eggs = egg | vn grow-26.2.1 «NP V NP.product PP.patient»: subject=Product |
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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