The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 37, sentence 9
‘That is my married wife,’ he declared, ‘and no one else will I have,’ and at that very moment the spells fell off him, and never more would he be a hoodie.
Who acts: That, married wife, one, spells, cook · What happens: be, declare, have, fall off · To what, where: married wife, cook, more hoodie · 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 (That, married wife, one, spells), 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 wife | punct |
| 2 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 wife | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 wife | cop |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 wife | nmod:poss |
| 5 | married | married | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 wife | amod |
| 6 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 declared | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 wife | punct |
| 8 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 wife | punct |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 declared | nsubj |
| 10 | declared | declare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 have | punct |
| 12 | ‘ | ‘ | PUNCT | _ | 19 have | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 have | cc |
| 14 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 15 one | det |
| 15 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 have | nsubj |
| 16 | else | else | ADV | _ | 15 one | advmod |
| 17 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 have | aux |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 have | nsubj |
| 19 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 declared | ccomp |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 have | punct |
| 21 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 19 have | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 fell | cc |
| 23 | at | at | ADP | _ | 26 moment | case |
| 24 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 26 moment | det |
| 25 | very | very | ADV | _ | 26 moment | advmod |
| 26 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 fell | obl |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 spells | det |
| 28 | spells | spell | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 fell | nsubj |
| 29 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 declared | conj |
| 30 | off | off | ADP | _ | 31 him | case |
| 31 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 fell | obl |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 hoodie | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 hoodie | cc |
| 34 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 35 more | advmod |
| 35 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 40 hoodie | amod |
| 36 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 40 hoodie | aux |
| 37 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 hoodie | nsubj |
| 38 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 40 hoodie | cop |
| 39 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 40 hoodie | det |
| 40 | hoodie | hoodie | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 fell | obl |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 declared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | That | my married wife | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | declare speech: other | past | my married wife | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | have | future | no one | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | fall off | past | the spells | cook | moment | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient he=Extent | |||
| 5 | is a | would | cook | a more hoodie | 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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