The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 35, sentence 120
‘Yes; that is the thief,’ answered Manawyddan.
Who acts: that, thief · What happens: be, answer · To what, where: thief, Manawyddan
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 35. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (that, thief), 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 thief | punct |
| 2 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 7 thief | discourse |
| 3 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 2 Yes | punct |
| 4 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 thief | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 thief | cop |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 thief | det |
| 7 | thief | thief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 answered | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 thief | punct |
| 9 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 thief | punct |
| 10 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | Manawyddan | Manawyddan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 answered | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | that | the thief | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | past | the thief | Manawyddan | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent manawyddan=Eventuality |
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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