The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 37, sentence 30
‘Then show yourself to me in the shape in which your family generally appear,’ replied Jegu.
Who acts: you, family · What happens: show, appear, reply · To what, where: yourself, shape, Jegu
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 37. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, family), 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 show | punct |
| 2 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 show | advmod |
| 3 | show | show | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | yourself | yourself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 3 show | iobj |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 me | case |
| 6 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 show | obl |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 shape | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 shape | det |
| 9 | shape | shape | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 show | obl |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 which | case |
| 11 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 appear | obl |
| 12 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 family | nmod:poss |
| 13 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 appear | nsubj |
| 14 | generally | generally | ADV | _ | 15 appear | advmod |
| 15 | appear | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 shape | acl:relcl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 replied | punct |
| 17 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 18 replied | punct |
| 18 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 show | parataxis |
| 19 | Jegu | Jegu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 replied | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 show | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | show | imperative | you not said here | yourself | then | to me; in the shape | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent yourself=Patient to i=Recipient in shape=Topic | ||
| 2 | appear | present | your family | the shape | generally property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in which=Location | |||
| 3 | reply speech: assert | past | Jegu | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent jegu=Topic |
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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