The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 48
‘“Oh, you may be quite sure,” laughed the hare.
Who acts: you, sure · What happens: be, laugh · To what, where: hare
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 (you, sure), 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 | _ | 12 laughed | punct |
| 2 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 sure | punct |
| 3 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 9 sure | discourse |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Oh | punct |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 sure | nsubj |
| 6 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 sure | aux |
| 7 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 sure | cop |
| 8 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 9 sure | advmod |
| 9 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 laughed | nsubj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 sure | punct |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 sure | punct |
| 12 | laughed | laugh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 hare | det |
| 14 | hare | hare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 laughed | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 laughed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | may | you | sure property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | laugh | past | sure | the hare | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hare=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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