The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 89
‘My dear friend,’ answered the monkey, with a chuckle, ‘I think you must be going a little mad.
Who acts: dear friend, I, you · What happens: answer, think, go · To what, where: monkey, chuckle · 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 (dear friend, 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 | _ | 4 friend | punct |
| 2 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 friend | nmod:poss |
| 3 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 friend | amod |
| 4 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 answered | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 friend | punct |
| 6 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 friend | punct |
| 7 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 monkey | det |
| 9 | monkey | monkey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 answered | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 chuckle | punct |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 chuckle | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 chuckle | det |
| 13 | chuckle | chuckle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 answered | parataxis |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 think | punct |
| 15 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 17 think | punct |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 think | nsubj |
| 17 | think | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 chuckle | acl:relcl |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 21 going | nsubj |
| 19 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 going | aux |
| 20 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 21 going | aux |
| 21 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 think | ccomp |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 little | det |
| 23 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 mad | obl:unmarked |
| 24 | mad | mad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 going | xcomp |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | My dear friend | the monkey | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent monkey=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other | present | I | a chuckle not said here | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent chuckle=Attribute clause=Theme | ||||
| 3 | go | must · progressive | you | mad property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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