The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 25
‘“Killed her, indeed!” answered the lion sulkily, “it is she who has nearly killed me.
Who acts: lion · What happens: kill, answer, be · 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), 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 | _ | 3 Killed | punct |
| 2 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 Killed | punct |
| 3 | Killed | kill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 Killed | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 indeed | punct |
| 6 | indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 3 Killed | advmod |
| 7 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 Killed | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 Killed | punct |
| 9 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 Killed | conj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 lion | det |
| 11 | lion | lion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 answered | obj |
| 12 | sulkily | sulkily | ADV | _ | 9 answered | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 killed | punct |
| 14 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 killed | punct |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 killed | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 killed | cop |
| 17 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 killed | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 killed | nsubj:pass |
| 19 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 killed | aux |
| 20 | nearly | nearly | ADV | _ | 21 killed | advmod |
| 21 | killed | kill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 answered | ccomp |
| 22 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 killed | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 Killed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kill in a quote | past | donkey | indeed property | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | ||||
| 2 | answer speech: express | past | the lion | sulkily property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present · perfect · passive | path | kill, nearly property | tree rules |
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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