The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 38, sentence 45
‘Well, open the portal, I say.’
Who acts: you, I · What happens: open, say · To what, where: portal · Speech: someone speaks here
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: who acts (you, I), 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 | _ | 4 open | punct |
| 2 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 4 open | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Well | punct |
| 4 | open | open | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 portal | det |
| 6 | portal | portal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 open | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 say | punct |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 say | nsubj |
| 9 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 open | parataxis |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 open | punct |
| 11 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 open | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | open | imperative | you not said here | the portal | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location portal=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | present | I | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/38/45/