The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 63
‘“This is a washerman’s donkey,” replied the hare gravely.
Who acts: This, washerman donkey · What happens: be, reply · 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 (This, washerman 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 | _ | 11 replied | punct |
| 2 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 donkey | punct |
| 3 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 washerman | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 washerman | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 washerman | det |
| 6 | washerman | washerman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 donkey | compound |
| 7 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 6 washerman | case |
| 8 | donkey | donkey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 replied | nsubj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 donkey | punct |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 donkey | punct |
| 11 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 hare | det |
| 13 | hare | hare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 replied | obj |
| 14 | gravely | gravely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 replied | xcomp |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | This | 's a washerman | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | past | washerman donkey | the hare | gravely property | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent hare=Topic |
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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