The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 39, sentence 79
‘Shall it be burnished white or blue?’ said Kai, taking a whetstone from under his arm.
Who acts: Kai · What happens: burnish, say, take · To what, where: sword, whetstone, arm · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 39. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Kai), 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 burnished | punct |
| 2 | Shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 burnished | aux |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 burnished | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 burnished | aux:pass |
| 5 | burnished | burnish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 said | ccomp |
| 6 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 burnished | xcomp |
| 7 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 8 blue | cc |
| 8 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 white | conj |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 burnished | punct |
| 10 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 burnished | punct |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | Kai | Kai | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 said | nsubj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 taking | punct |
| 14 | taking | take | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 said | advcl |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 whetstone | det |
| 16 | whetstone | whetstone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 taking | obj |
| 17 | from | from | ADP | _ | 20 arm | case |
| 18 | under | under | ADP | _ | 20 arm | case |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 arm | nmod:poss |
| 20 | arm | arm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 taking | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | burnish | shall · passive | sword | white property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Kai | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | take | gerund | Kai not said here | a whetstone | Kai's arm | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent whetstone=Theme from arm=Initial_Location |
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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