The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 36, sentence 94
‘Indeed I will wed thee; a pretty creature is the hoodie,’ answered she, and on the morrow they were married.
Who acts: I, pretty creature · What happens: wed, be, answer, marry · To what, where: thee, hoodie, daughter, knockers, morrow · 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 (I, pretty creature), 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 wed | punct |
| 2 | Indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 5 wed | advmod |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 wed | nsubj |
| 4 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 wed | aux |
| 5 | wed | wed | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 answered | ccomp |
| 6 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 5 wed | obj |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 hoodie | punct |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 creature | det |
| 9 | pretty | pretty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 creature | amod |
| 10 | creature | creature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 hoodie | nsubj |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 hoodie | cop |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 hoodie | det |
| 13 | hoodie | hoodie | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 wed | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 wed | punct |
| 15 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 wed | punct |
| 16 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 answered | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 married | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 married | cc |
| 20 | on | on | ADP | _ | 22 morrow | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 morrow | det |
| 22 | morrow | morrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 married | obl |
| 23 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 married | nsubj:pass |
| 24 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 married | aux:pass |
| 25 | married | marry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 answered | ccomp |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wed | future | I | thee | indeed property | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thou=Patient | |||
| 2 | is a | present | a pretty creature | the hoodie | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | answer speech: assert | past | daughter | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | marry | past · passive | knockers = knocker | the morrow | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
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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