The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 35, sentence 53
‘It is not fitting that we should stay here, for he have lost our dogs and cannot get food.
Who acts: heart, we, husband · What happens: not fit, stay, lose, not get · To what, where: dogs, food
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 (heart, we, husband), 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 | _ | 5 fitting | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 fitting | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 fitting | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 fitting | advmod |
| 5 | fitting | fit | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 stay | mark |
| 7 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 stay | nsubj |
| 8 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 stay | aux |
| 9 | stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 fitting | advcl |
| 10 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 stay | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 lost | punct |
| 12 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 15 lost | mark |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 lost | nsubj |
| 14 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 lost | aux |
| 15 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 stay | advcl |
| 16 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 dogs | nmod:poss |
| 17 | dogs | dog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 lost | obj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 get | cc |
| 19 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 get | aux |
| 20 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 get | advmod |
| 21 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 lost | conj |
| 22 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 get | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 fitting | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not fit | present · progressive | heart | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | stay | should | we | here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | lose | present · perfect | husband | our dogs | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dog=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | not get | can | husband not said here | food | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer food=Stimulus |
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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