The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 36, sentence 69
‘They are,’ said she, ‘and make haste lest the burying be ended before you get there.’
Who acts: Silly, woman, you · What happens: be, say, make, bury, end, get · To what, where: haste · 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 (Silly, woman, you), 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 are | punct |
| 2 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 are | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 said | ccomp |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 are | punct |
| 5 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 are | punct |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 said | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 she | punct |
| 9 | ‘ | ‘ | PUNCT | _ | 11 make | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 make | cc |
| 11 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 said | ccomp |
| 12 | haste | haste | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 make | obj |
| 13 | lest | lest | SCONJ | _ | 17 ended | mark |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 ended | det |
| 15 | burying | bury | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 17 ended | nsubj |
| 16 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 17 ended | aux:pass |
| 17 | ended | end | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 make | advcl |
| 18 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 20 get | mark |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 get | nsubj |
| 20 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 ended | advcl |
| 21 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 20 get | advmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 make | punct |
| 23 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 make | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | does | present | Silly | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | woman | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | make | infinitive | haste | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset haste=Product | |||||
| 4 | bury | gerund | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | end | infinitive · passive | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: subject=Eventuality | ||||||
| 6 | get | present | you | there | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
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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