The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 20
‘Yes, I really am your wife,’ she said, as if she had guessed his thoughts, ‘and the enchantment is ended.
Who acts: I, wife, prince · What happens: be, say, guess, end, think · To what, where: wife, thoughts, enchantment · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, wife, prince), 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 | _ | 8 wife | punct |
| 2 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 8 wife | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Yes | punct |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 wife | nsubj |
| 5 | really | really | ADV | _ | 8 wife | advmod |
| 6 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 wife | cop |
| 7 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 wife | nmod:poss |
| 8 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 said | ccomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 wife | punct |
| 10 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 wife | punct |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 said | nsubj |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 guessed | punct |
| 14 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 18 guessed | mark |
| 15 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 18 guessed | mark |
| 16 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 guessed | nsubj |
| 17 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 guessed | aux |
| 18 | guessed | guess | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 12 said | ccomp |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 thoughts | nmod:poss |
| 20 | thoughts | thought | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 guessed | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 ended | punct |
| 22 | ‘ | ‘ | PUNCT | _ | 27 ended | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 ended | cc |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 enchantment | det |
| 25 | enchantment | enchantment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 ended | nsubj:pass |
| 26 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 ended | aux:pass |
| 27 | ended | end | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 guessed | conj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | I | your wife | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | wife | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | guess a condition, not said to happen | past · perfect | wife | prince's thoughts | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thought=Theme | ||||
| 4 | end | present · passive | the enchantment | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: subject=Eventuality | |||||
| 5 | think | prince | nom thought «cognition transitive»: poss=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.
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