The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 37, sentence 67
So, like a well-brought-up girl, Barbaik answered that it should be as her father pleased, knowing quite well that old Riou had often said that after he was dead there was no one so capable of carrying on the farm.
Who acts: Barbaik, much, Riou, one · What happens: bring up, answer, be, know, say, carry · To what, where: old Riou, farm · 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 (Barbaik, much, Riou, one), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 13 answered | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 So | punct |
| 3 | like | like | ADP | _ | 10 girl | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 girl | det |
| 5 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 7 brought | advmod |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 well | punct |
| 7 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 girl | amod |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 up | punct |
| 9 | up | up | ADP | _ | 7 brought | compound:prt |
| 10 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 answered | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 girl | punct |
| 12 | Barbaik | Barbaik | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 answered | nsubj |
| 13 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 21 pleased | mark |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 pleased | nsubj |
| 16 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 pleased | aux |
| 17 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 21 pleased | cop |
| 18 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 21 pleased | mark |
| 19 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 father | nmod:poss |
| 20 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 pleased | nsubj |
| 21 | pleased | pleased | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 answered | ccomp |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 knowing | punct |
| 23 | knowing | know | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 answered | advcl |
| 24 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 25 well | advmod |
| 25 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 23 knowing | advmod |
| 26 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 31 said | mark |
| 27 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 Riou | amod |
| 28 | Riou | Riou | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 said | nsubj:pass |
| 29 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 said | aux |
| 30 | often | often | ADV | _ | 31 said | advmod |
| 31 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 knowing | ccomp |
| 32 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 36 dead | mark |
| 33 | after | after | ADP | _ | 36 dead | case |
| 34 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 dead | nsubj |
| 35 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 dead | cop |
| 36 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 said | advcl |
| 37 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 38 was | expl |
| 38 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 dead | conj |
| 39 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 40 one | det |
| 40 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 was | nsubj |
| 41 | so | so | ADV | _ | 42 capable | advmod |
| 42 | capable | capable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 one | amod |
| 43 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 44 carrying | mark |
| 44 | carrying | carry | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 42 capable | advcl |
| 45 | on | on | ADP | _ | 47 farm | case |
| 46 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 47 farm | det |
| 47 | farm | farm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 carrying | obl |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring up | participle | well property | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | past | Barbaik | like a brought girl | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | is | should | much | pleased property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | know | gerund | Barbaik not said here | well property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | say speech: assert | past · perfect · passive | old Riou | often property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic | ||||
| 6 | is | past | Riou | dead property | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | be | past | no one | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 8 | carry | gerund | no one not said here | the farm | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=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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