The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 73
‘I am sure I am,’ answered the shark, ‘and I will swim as quickly as I can,’ and so he did, and in three days they caught sight of the kuyu tree hanging over the water.
Who acts: I, heart, sharks, kuyu tree · What happens: be, answer, swim, do, catch, hang · To what, where: shark, sight, water, kuyu tree
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, heart, sharks, kuyu tree), 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 | _ | 4 sure | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 sure | nsubj |
| 3 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 sure | cop |
| 4 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 am | nsubj |
| 6 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 sure | ccomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 am | punct |
| 8 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 answered | punct |
| 9 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 sure | parataxis |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 shark | det |
| 11 | shark | shark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 answered | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 ‘ | punct |
| 13 | ‘ | ‘ | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 shark | conj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 swim | cc |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 swim | nsubj |
| 16 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 swim | aux |
| 17 | swim | swim | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 answered | conj |
| 18 | as | as | ADV | _ | 19 quickly | advmod |
| 19 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 17 swim | advmod |
| 20 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 22 can | mark |
| 21 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 can | nsubj |
| 22 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 quickly | advcl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 can | punct |
| 24 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 22 can | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 did | cc |
| 26 | so | so | ADV | _ | 28 did | advmod |
| 27 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 did | nsubj |
| 28 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 sure | conj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 caught | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 caught | cc |
| 31 | in | in | ADP | _ | 33 days | case |
| 32 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 33 days | nummod |
| 33 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 caught | obl |
| 34 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 caught | nsubj |
| 35 | caught | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 sure | parataxis |
| 36 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 caught | obj |
| 37 | of | of | ADP | _ | 40 tree | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 tree | det |
| 39 | kuyu | kuyu | X | _ | 40 tree | compound |
| 40 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 sight | nmod |
| 41 | hanging | hang | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 40 tree | acl |
| 42 | over | over | ADP | _ | 44 water | case |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 water | det |
| 44 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 hanging | obl |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 sure | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | I | sure property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | past | the shark and ‘ | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent shark=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | swim | future | I | quickly property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | do | past | heart | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | catch | past | sharks = shark | sight of the kuyu tree | day | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sight=Theme | |||
| 6 | hang | gerund | the kuyu tree not said here | the water | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over water=Location | ||||
| 7 | sight | the kuyu tree | nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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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