The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 35, sentence 36
‘We must see what is in that bush,’ said Pryderi, and what was in it was a boar, with a skin as white as the snow on the mountains.
Who acts: We, Pryderi · What happens: see, be, say · To what, where: bush, boar · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (We, Pryderi), 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 see | punct |
| 2 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 see | nsubj |
| 3 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 see | aux |
| 4 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 said | ccomp |
| 5 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 9 bush | nsubj |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 bush | cop |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 bush | case |
| 8 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 bush | det |
| 9 | bush | bush | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 see | ccomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 see | punct |
| 11 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 see | punct |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | Pryderi | Pryderi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 said | nsubj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 boar | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 boar | cc |
| 16 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 22 boar | nsubj |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 boar | cop |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 boar | case |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 boar | nsubj |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 boar | cop |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 boar | det |
| 22 | boar | boar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 said | ccomp |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 skin | punct |
| 24 | with | with | ADP | _ | 26 skin | case |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 skin | det |
| 26 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 boar | conj |
| 27 | as | as | ADP | _ | 28 white | case |
| 28 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 skin | amod |
| 29 | as | as | ADP | _ | 31 snow | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 snow | det |
| 31 | snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 white | obl |
| 32 | on | on | ADP | _ | 34 mountains | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 mountains | det |
| 34 | mountains | mountain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 skin | nmod |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | must | We | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | is | present | that bush | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | Pryderi | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | is | past | a boar and a skin on the mountains | tree rules |
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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