The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 36, sentence 88
But the following day he came back again, and said to the second girl:
Who acts: bird · What happens: follow, come back, say · To what, where: second girl · 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 (bird), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 came | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 day | det |
| 3 | following | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 day | amod |
| 4 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 came | obl:unmarked |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 came | nsubj |
| 6 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | back | back | ADV | _ | 6 came | advmod |
| 8 | again | again | ADV | _ | 6 came | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 said | cc |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 came | conj |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 girl | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 girl | det |
| 14 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 15 girl | amod |
| 15 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 said | obl |
| 16 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 6 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | gerund | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | come back | past | bird | again; day | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | bird not said here | the second girl | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to girl=Recipient |
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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