The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 36, sentence 52
‘Yes, thou art,’ she answered; ‘take off thy clothes and lie down.’
Who acts: wife · What happens: answer, take off, lie down · To what, where: clothes · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 36. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wife), 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 art | punct |
| 2 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 5 art | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 art | punct |
| 4 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 5 art | nsubj |
| 5 | art | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 answered | punct |
| 7 | ’ | ' | CCONJ | _ | 9 answered | cc |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 answered | nsubj |
| 9 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 art | parataxis |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 take | punct |
| 11 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 take | punct |
| 12 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 answered | ccomp |
| 13 | off | off | ADP | _ | 12 take | compound:prt |
| 14 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 15 clothes | nmod:poss |
| 15 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 12 take | obj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 lie | cc |
| 17 | lie | lie | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 take | conj |
| 18 | down | down | ADV | _ | 17 lie | advmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 art | punct |
| 20 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 art | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | wife | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | take off | infinitive | thy clothes | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clothes=Theme | |||||
| 3 | lie down | infinitive | down property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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