The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 28
Fancy such a great fat creature being able to fight!” cried the hare.
Who acts: Fancy · What happens: creature, be, fight, cry · To what, where: hare · 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 (Fancy), 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 | Fancy | fancy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 creature | nsubj |
| 2 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 6 creature | det:predet |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 creature | det |
| 4 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 creature | amod |
| 5 | fat | fat | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 creature | amod |
| 6 | creature | creature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 cried | parataxis |
| 7 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 able | cop |
| 8 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 creature | amod |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 fight | mark |
| 10 | fight | fight | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 able | xcomp |
| 11 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 6 creature | punct |
| 12 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 creature | punct |
| 13 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 hare | det |
| 15 | hare | hare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 cried | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | creature | Fancy | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | is | gerund | able property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | fight | to-infinitive | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | cry speech: express in a quote | past | the hare | 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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