The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 38, sentence 33
‘That will be easily fulfilled,’ replied his father.
What happens: fulfil, reply · To what, where: That, father
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 38. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | _ | 9 replied | punct |
| 2 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 fulfilled | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 fulfilled | aux |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 fulfilled | aux:pass |
| 5 | easily | easily | ADV | _ | 6 fulfilled | advmod |
| 6 | fulfilled | fulfil | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 replied | advcl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 fulfilled | punct |
| 8 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 replied | punct |
| 9 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 father | nmod:poss |
| 11 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 replied | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fulfil | future · passive | That | easily property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | past | man's father | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent father=Topic |
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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