The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 54
‘Nothing unpleasant, I hope, for you sound rather grave?’
Who acts: I, you · What happens: hope, sound
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 (I, you), 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 | _ | 3 unpleasant | punct |
| 2 | Nothing | nothing | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 unpleasant | amod |
| 3 | unpleasant | unpleasant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 hope | punct |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 hope | nsubj |
| 6 | hope | hope | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 unpleasant | parataxis |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 sound | punct |
| 8 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 10 sound | mark |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 sound | nsubj |
| 10 | sound | sound | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 hope | conj |
| 11 | rather | rather | ADV | _ | 12 grave | advmod |
| 12 | grave | grave | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 sound | xcomp |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 unpleasant | punct |
| 14 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 unpleasant | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hope | present | I | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 2 | sound | present | you | grave property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
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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