The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 35, sentence 96
‘I see a creature in thy hand like upon a mouse, and ill does it become a man of thy rank to touch a reptile like this.
Who acts: I, creature · What happens: see, become, touch · To what, where: creature, hand, man, reptile
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 (I, creature), 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 | _ | 3 see | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 see | nsubj |
| 3 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 creature | det |
| 5 | creature | creature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 see | obj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 hand | case |
| 7 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 8 hand | nmod:poss |
| 8 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 see | obl |
| 9 | like | like | ADP | _ | 12 mouse | case |
| 10 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 12 mouse | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 mouse | det |
| 12 | mouse | mouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 see | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 become | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 become | cc |
| 15 | ill | ill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 become | advcl |
| 16 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 become | aux |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 become | nsubj |
| 18 | become | become | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 see | conj |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 man | det |
| 20 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 become | xcomp |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 rank | case |
| 22 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 23 rank | nmod:poss |
| 23 | rank | rank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 man | nmod |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 touch | mark |
| 25 | touch | touch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 become | advcl |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 reptile | det |
| 27 | reptile | reptile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 touch | obj |
| 28 | like | like | ADP | _ | 29 this | case |
| 29 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 27 reptile | nmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | present | I | a creature | thy hand | like a mouse | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer creature=Stimulus | ||
| 2 | become | present · do-support | creature | a man of thy rank | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | touch | to-infinitive | creature not said here | a reptile | like this | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme reptile=Co-Theme |
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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