The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 37, sentence 51
‘Of course, Jegu must have done this in the hope of my giving him a dance,’ she thought to herself, and when she met him outside the door she stopped and thanked him for his help.
Who acts: my, dance, Jegu · What happens: do, give, think, meet, stop, thank · To what, where: this, hope, dance, Jegu, door
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 (my, dance, 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 | _ | 8 done | punct |
| 2 | Of | of | ADP | _ | 5 Jegu | case |
| 3 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Of | fixed |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Of | punct |
| 5 | Jegu | Jegu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 done | obl |
| 6 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 done | aux |
| 7 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 done | aux |
| 8 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 9 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 done | obj |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 hope | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 hope | det |
| 12 | hope | hope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 done | obl |
| 13 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 15 giving | mark |
| 14 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 giving | nsubj |
| 15 | giving | give | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 hope | acl |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 giving | iobj |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 dance | det |
| 18 | dance | dance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 giving | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 thought | punct |
| 20 | ’ | ' | CCONJ | _ | 22 thought | cc |
| 21 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 thought | nsubj |
| 22 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 done | parataxis |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 herself | case |
| 24 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 22 thought | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 met | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 met | cc |
| 27 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 29 met | advmod |
| 28 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 met | nsubj |
| 29 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 thought | conj |
| 30 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 met | obj |
| 31 | outside | outside | ADP | _ | 33 door | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 door | det |
| 33 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 met | obl |
| 34 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 stopped | nsubj |
| 35 | stopped | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 door | acl:relcl |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 thanked | cc |
| 37 | thanked | thank | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 thought | conj |
| 38 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 thanked | obj |
| 39 | for | for | ADP | _ | 41 help | case |
| 40 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 41 help | nmod:poss |
| 41 | help | help | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 thanked | obl |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 done | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | must · perfect | this | the hope | of Jegu | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | give | gerund | my | a dance | Jegu | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient dance=Theme | |||
| 3 | think speech: other | past | dance | dance | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | meet | past | dance | Jegu | outside the door | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent | |||
| 5 | stop | past | dance | the door not said here | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector door=Eventuality | ||||
| 6 | thank speech: thank | past | dance not said here | Jegu | for Jegu's help | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent he=Theme for help=Attribute | |||
| 7 | help | Jegu | nom help «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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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