The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 36, sentence 67
‘Silly that you are, they are on your back, of course,’ answered the woman.
Who acts: you, Silly · What happens: be, answer · To what, where: back, woman
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 (you, Silly), 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 | _ | 2 Silly | punct |
| 2 | Silly | silly | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 answered | nsubj |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 5 are | mark |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 are | nsubj |
| 5 | are | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 back | advcl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 are | punct |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 back | nsubj |
| 8 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 back | cop |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 back | case |
| 10 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 back | nmod:poss |
| 11 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Silly | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 course | punct |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 course | case |
| 14 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Silly | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Silly | punct |
| 16 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Silly | punct |
| 17 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 woman | det |
| 19 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 answered | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | does | present | you | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | is | present | Silly | your back | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | answer speech: assert | past | Silly and course | the woman | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent woman=Eventuality |
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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