The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 66
“You, a lion and a grown-up person, and ask questions like that.
What happens: grow up, ask · To what, where: questions
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: 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 | _ | 5 lion | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 lion | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 lion | punct |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 lion | det |
| 5 | lion | lion | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 person | cc |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 person | det |
| 8 | grown | grow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 person | amod |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 up | punct |
| 10 | up | up | ADP | _ | 8 grown | compound:prt |
| 11 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 lion | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 ask | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 ask | cc |
| 14 | ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 5 lion | parataxis |
| 15 | questions | question | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 ask | obj |
| 16 | like | like | ADP | _ | 17 that | case |
| 17 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 questions | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 lion | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow up in a quote | participle | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask in a quote | infinitive | questions | like that | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent question=Recipient |
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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