The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 24
‘“Well, lion, have you killed her?” asked she, running swiftly up the path.
Who acts: lion, donkey · What happens: have, kill, ask, run · To what, where: donkey, path · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lion, donkey), 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 | _ | 7 have | punct |
| 2 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 lion | punct |
| 3 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 5 lion | discourse |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Well | punct |
| 5 | lion | lion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 have | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 lion | punct |
| 7 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 asked | ccomp |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 killed | nsubj |
| 9 | killed | kill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 have | ccomp |
| 10 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 killed | obj |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 have | punct |
| 12 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 have | punct |
| 13 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 asked | iobj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 running | punct |
| 16 | running | run | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 asked | advcl |
| 17 | swiftly | swiftly | ADV | _ | 16 running | advmod |
| 18 | up | up | ADP | _ | 20 path | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 path | det |
| 20 | path | path | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 running | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have in a quote | present | lion | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | kill in a quote | past | donkey | donkey | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | ||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | past | donkey | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP that S»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | run | gerund | the path | swiftly property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme up path=Trajectory |
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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