The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 102

‘“Well, that is a fat creature,” thought she, and turned out of her path to tell the news to a lion who was a friend of hers.

Who acts: that, fat creature, news, lion · What happens: be, think, turn out, tell · To what, where: fat creature, beast, path, lion, friend · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (that, fat creature, news, lion), 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	_	12 thought	punct
2	“	"	PUNCT	_	9 creature	punct
3	Well	well	INTJ	_	9 creature	discourse
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 Well	punct
5	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	9 creature	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 creature	cop
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 creature	det
8	fat	fat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 creature	amod
9	creature	creature	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 thought	nsubj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 creature	punct
11	”	"	PUNCT	_	9 creature	punct
12	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 thought	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 turned	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 turned	cc
16	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 thought	conj
17	out	out	ADP	_	20 path	case
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 path	case
19	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 path	nmod:poss
20	path	path	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 turned	obl
21	to	to	PART	_	22 tell	mark
22	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 turned	advcl
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 news	det
24	news	news	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 tell	obj
25	to	to	ADP	_	27 lion	case
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 lion	det
27	lion	lion	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 tell	obl
28	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	31 friend	nsubj
29	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 friend	cop
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 friend	det
31	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 lion	conj
32	of	of	ADP	_	33 hers	case
33	hers	her	PRON	Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 friend	nmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	that	a fat creature			tree rules
2	think speech: other	past	a fat creature	beast			vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot she=Theme
3	turn out	past	a fat creature not said here	beast's path			vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location path=Theme
4	tell speech: assert	to-infinitive	the news		a lion and a friend		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient how S»: agent=Agent to lion=Recipient
5	is a	past	a lion and a friend	a friend		of beast	tree rules

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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