The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 79
From ‘Swahili Tales,’ by Edward Steere, LL.D.
Who acts: Edward Steere · What happens: tell · 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 (Edward Steere), 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 | From | from | ADP | _ | 4 Tales | case |
| 2 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 Tales | punct |
| 3 | Swahili | swahili | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 Tales | compound |
| 4 | Tales | tale | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 Tales | punct |
| 6 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 Tales | punct |
| 7 | by | by | ADP | _ | 9 Steere | case |
| 8 | Edward | Edward | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Steere | compound |
| 9 | Steere | Steere | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Tales | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 LL.D | punct |
| 11 | LL.D | LL.D | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Steere | conj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 Tales | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell | Edward Steere and LL.D | nom tale «communication intransitive»: by=agent |
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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