The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 37, sentence 44
‘But how are you going to do it?’ exclaimed Jegu wonderingly.
Who acts: you · What happens: go, do, exclaim · To what, where: dwarf, Jegu · Speech: someone speaks here
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), 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 | _ | 6 going | punct |
| 2 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 going | cc |
| 3 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 going | advmod |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 going | aux |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 going | nsubj |
| 6 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 exclaimed | ccomp |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 do | mark |
| 8 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 going | xcomp |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 do | obj |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 going | punct |
| 11 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 going | punct |
| 12 | exclaimed | exclaim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | Jegu | Jegu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 exclaimed | obj |
| 14 | wonderingly | wonderingly | ADV | _ | 12 exclaimed | advmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 exclaimed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | present · progressive | you | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | do | to-infinitive | you not said here | dwarf | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | exclaim speech: express | past | Jegu | wonderingly property | tree rules |
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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