The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 80
‘Are you there?’ called the shark again, louder than before, and in a very cross voice.
Who acts: you · What happens: be, call · To what, where: cross voice, 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 (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 | _ | 4 there | punct |
| 2 | Are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 there | cop |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 there | nsubj |
| 4 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | root | root |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 there | punct |
| 6 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 there | punct |
| 7 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 there | advcl |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 shark | det |
| 9 | shark | shark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 called | obj |
| 10 | again | again | ADV | _ | 7 called | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 louder | punct |
| 12 | louder | loud | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 4 there | parataxis |
| 13 | than | than | ADP | _ | 14 before | case |
| 14 | before | before | ADV | _ | 12 louder | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 voice | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 voice | cc |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 voice | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 voice | det |
| 19 | very | very | ADV | _ | 20 cross | advmod |
| 20 | cross | cross | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 voice | amod |
| 21 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 there | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 there | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | you | a cross voice | there property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | call | participle | you not said here | the shark | again | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent shark=Recipient |
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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