The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 53
‘“Take this meat and skin it and roast it,” he said to the hare; “but my appetite is not so good as it was, and the only part I want for myself is the heart.
Who acts: hare, appetite, only part · What happens: take, roast, say, not be, be, want · To what, where: meat, skin, hare, only part, heart · 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, appetite, only part), 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 Take | punct |
| 2 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 Take | punct |
| 3 | Take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 meat | det |
| 5 | meat | meat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 Take | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 skin | cc |
| 7 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 meat | conj |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 Take | obj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 roast | cc |
| 10 | roast | roast | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 Take | conj |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 roast | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Take | punct |
| 13 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 Take | punct |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 said | nsubj |
| 15 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 Take | parataxis |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 hare | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 hare | det |
| 18 | hare | hare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 said | obl |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 3 Take | punct |
| 20 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 27 good | punct |
| 21 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 27 good | cc |
| 22 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 appetite | nmod:poss |
| 23 | appetite | appetite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 good | nsubj |
| 24 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 good | cop |
| 25 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 27 good | advmod |
| 26 | so | so | ADV | _ | 27 good | advmod |
| 27 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Take | parataxis |
| 28 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 30 was | mark |
| 29 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 was | nsubj |
| 30 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 good | advcl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 heart | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 heart | cc |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 part | det |
| 34 | only | only | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 part | amod |
| 35 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 heart | nsubj |
| 36 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 37 want | nsubj |
| 37 | want | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 35 part | acl:relcl |
| 38 | for | for | ADP | _ | 39 myself | case |
| 39 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 37 want | obl |
| 40 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 42 heart | cop |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 heart | det |
| 42 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 Take | obl |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 Take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take in a quote | imperative | the hare = hare not said here | this meat and skin | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | roast in a quote | infinitive | the hare = hare not said here | skin | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | hare | the hare | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to hare=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | not is in a quote | present | my appetite | good property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | be in a quote | past | appetite | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | want in a quote | present | the hare = hare | the only part not said here | for the hare = hare | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot part=Theme | |||
| 7 | is a in a quote | present | the only part | the heart | 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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