The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 36, sentence 61
‘No, it is not you,’ answered she, so he went away and slept in the wood.
Who acts: vengeance, you, man · What happens: not be, answer, go away, sleep · To what, where: you, wife, wood
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 (vengeance, you, man), 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 | _ | 10 answered | punct |
| 2 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 7 you | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 No | punct |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 you | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 you | cop |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 you | advmod |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 answered | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 you | punct |
| 9 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 you | punct |
| 10 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 answered | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 went | punct |
| 13 | so | so | ADV | _ | 15 went | advmod |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 went | nsubj |
| 15 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 answered | conj |
| 16 | away | away | ADV | _ | 15 went | advmod |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 slept | cc |
| 18 | slept | sleep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 went | conj |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 wood | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 wood | det |
| 21 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 slept | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is a | present | vengeance | you | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | past | you | wife | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent she=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | go away | past | man | away property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | sleep | past | man not said here | the wood | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in wood=Location |
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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