The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 37, sentence 40
‘Yes,’ answered Jegu, ‘I remember it very well, and I opened the net and let him go.’
Who acts: I, Jegu · What happens: answer, remember, open, let, go · To what, where: Jegu, redbreast, net
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 (I, Jegu), 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 answered | punct |
| 2 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 5 answered | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Yes | punct |
| 4 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Yes | punct |
| 5 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | Jegu | Jegu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 answered | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 remember | punct |
| 8 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 remember | punct |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 remember | nsubj |
| 10 | remember | remember | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 answered | conj |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 remember | obj |
| 12 | very | very | ADV | _ | 13 well | advmod |
| 13 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 10 remember | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 opened | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 opened | cc |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 opened | nsubj |
| 17 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 answered | parataxis |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 net | det |
| 19 | net | net | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 opened | obj |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 let | cc |
| 21 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 17 opened | conj |
| 22 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 let | obj |
| 23 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 let | xcomp |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 answered | punct |
| 25 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | Jegu | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent jegu=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | remember | present | I | redbreast | well property | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||
| 3 | open | past | I | the net | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location net=Theme | ||||
| 4 | let | infinitive | I not said here | Jegu | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | go | infinitive | Jegu not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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