The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 40
‘“Good morning,” said the hare politely, and the donkey got slowly on to her legs, and looked to see who her visitor could be.
Who acts: hare, donkey · What happens: say, get, look, see, be · To what, where: legs · 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 (hare, 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 said | punct |
| 2 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 morning | punct |
| 3 | Good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 morning | amod |
| 4 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | ccomp |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 morning | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 morning | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 hare | det |
| 9 | hare | hare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | nsubj |
| 10 | politely | politely | ADV | _ | 7 said | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 got | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 got | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 donkey | det |
| 14 | donkey | donkey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 got | nsubj |
| 15 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 said | conj |
| 16 | slowly | slowly | ADV | _ | 15 got | advmod |
| 17 | on | on | ADP | _ | 20 legs | case |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 on | fixed |
| 19 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 legs | nmod:poss |
| 20 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 got | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 looked | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 looked | cc |
| 23 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 said | conj |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 see | mark |
| 25 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 looked | xcomp |
| 26 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 30 be | nsubj |
| 27 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 visitor | nmod:poss |
| 28 | visitor | visitor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 be | nsubj |
| 29 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 30 be | aux |
| 30 | be | be | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 see | ccomp |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the hare | politely property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | get | past | the donkey | donkey's legs | slowly property | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent on leg=Source | |||
| 3 | look | past | the hare not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | see | to-infinitive | the hare not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | can | could | vn exist-47.1 «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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