The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 35, sentence 74
‘A thief,’ he answered, ‘that I caught robbing me.’
Who acts: thief, I · What happens: answer, catch, rob · To what, where: me
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 (thief, 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 | _ | 7 answered | punct |
| 2 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 thief | det |
| 3 | thief | thief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 answered | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 thief | punct |
| 5 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 thief | punct |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 answered | nsubj |
| 7 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 caught | punct |
| 9 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 caught | punct |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 caught | mark |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 caught | nsubj |
| 12 | caught | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 answered | conj |
| 13 | robbing | rob | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 caught | xcomp |
| 14 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 robbing | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 answered | punct |
| 16 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | a thief | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | catch | past | I | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | rob | gerund | I not said here | me | vn cheat-10.6.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Source |
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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