The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 38, sentence 9
‘You won’t forget that in a hurry,’ she said, smiling grimly to herself, but in a moment they were back again with large pots of water, which they poured on the fire.
Who acts: You, Barbaik, dwarfs, moment · What happens: not forget, say, smile, be, pour · To what, where: hurry, Barbaik, moment, fire · 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, Barbaik, dwarfs, moment), 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 | _ | 5 forget | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 forget | nsubj |
| 3 | wo | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 forget | aux |
| 4 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 forget | advmod |
| 5 | forget | forget | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 said | mark |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 hurry | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 hurry | det |
| 9 | hurry | hurry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 said | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 hurry | punct |
| 11 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 hurry | punct |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 said | nsubj |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 forget | advcl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 smiling | punct |
| 15 | smiling | smile | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 said | advcl |
| 16 | grimly | grimly | ADV | _ | 15 smiling | advmod |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 herself | case |
| 18 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 15 smiling | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 moment | punct |
| 20 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 23 moment | cc |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 moment | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 moment | det |
| 23 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 forget | parataxis |
| 24 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 back | nsubj |
| 25 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 back | cop |
| 26 | back | back | ADV | _ | 23 moment | acl |
| 27 | again | again | ADV | _ | 26 back | advmod |
| 28 | with | with | ADP | _ | 30 pots | case |
| 29 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 pots | amod |
| 30 | pots | pot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 moment | nmod |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 water | case |
| 32 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 pots | nmod |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 poured | punct |
| 34 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 36 poured | nsubj |
| 35 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 poured | nsubj |
| 36 | poured | pour | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 moment | parataxis |
| 37 | on | on | ADP | _ | 39 fire | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 fire | det |
| 39 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 poured | obl |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 forget | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not forget | future | You | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Barbaik | a hurry | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent in hurry=Manner | ||||
| 3 | smile | gerund | Barbaik not said here | Barbaik | grimly property | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to herself=Recipient | |||
| 4 | is | past | dwarfs = dwarf | a moment with large pots of water not said here | again | back property | tree rules | ||
| 5 | pour | past | a moment with large pots of water | the fire | vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Source |
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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