The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 63
Why isn’t your heart here?’ said the shark, with a puzzled expression.
Who acts: heart · What happens: be, say, puzzle · To what, where: heart, shark · 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 (heart), 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 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 heart | advmod |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 heart | cop |
| 3 | n’t | n't | CCONJ | _ | 5 heart | cc |
| 4 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 heart | nmod:poss |
| 5 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | nsubj |
| 6 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 heart | advmod |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 heart | punct |
| 8 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 heart | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 shark | det |
| 11 | shark | shark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 expression | punct |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 expression | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 expression | det |
| 15 | puzzled | puzzle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 expression | amod |
| 16 | expression | expression | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 shark | conj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | your heart | here | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | your heart | the shark and a puzzled expression | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent shark=Topic | ||||
| 3 | puzzle | participle | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
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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