The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 34, sentence 78

‘I will show you,’ he replied, and as he spoke he pulled out three of his red hairs and blew them away, muttering something the while.

Who acts: I, man · What happens: show, reply, speak, pull out, blow away, mutter · To what, where: you, three, clothes, something · 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 (I, man), 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 show	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 show	nsubj
3	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 show	aux
4	show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 replied	ccomp
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 show	iobj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 show	punct
7	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 show	punct
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 replied	nsubj
9	replied	reply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 spoke	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 spoke	cc
12	as	as	SCONJ	_	14 spoke	mark
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 spoke	nsubj
14	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 replied	conj
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 pulled	nsubj
16	pulled	pull	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 spoke	ccomp
17	out	out	ADP	_	16 pulled	compound:prt
18	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 pulled	obj
19	of	of	ADP	_	22 hairs	case
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 hairs	nmod:poss
21	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 hairs	amod
22	hairs	hair	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 three	nmod
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 blew	cc
24	blew	blow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 pulled	conj
25	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 blew	obj
26	away	away	ADV	_	24 blew	advmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 muttering	punct
28	muttering	mutter	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	24 blew	advcl
29	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	28 muttering	obj
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 while	det
31	while	while	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 muttering	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 replied	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	show	future	I		you			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient
2	reply speech: assert	past	man					vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	speak speech: other	past	man					tree rules
4	pull out	past	man	three of man's red hairs				tree rules
5	blow away	past	man not said here	clothes			away property	vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent they=Patient
6	mutter speech: assert	gerund	man not said here	something		while		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Topic

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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