The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 10

‘Maybe, then,’ says he, ‘it will be different now,’ and he struck the eye next him with a switch.

Who acts: coat, Musha · What happens: say, be, strike · To what, where: Musha, eye · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (coat, Musha), 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	_	7 says	punct
2	Maybe	maybe	ADV	_	7 says	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Maybe	punct
4	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 says	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 then	punct
6	’	'	PUNCT	_	7 says	punct
7	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 says	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 different	punct
10	‘	'	PUNCT	_	14 different	punct
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 different	nsubj
12	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 different	aux
13	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	14 different	cop
14	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 says	ccomp
15	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	14 different	advmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 different	punct
17	’	'	PUNCT	_	14 different	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 struck	cc
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 struck	nsubj
20	struck	strike	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 says	conj
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 eye	det
22	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 struck	obj
23	next	next	ADP	_	24 him	case
24	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 struck	obl
25	with	with	ADP	_	27 switch	case
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 switch	det
27	switch	switch	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 struck	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 says	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present		Musha	then	maybe property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent he=Topic
2	is	future	coat		now	different property	tree rules
3	strike	past	Musha	the eye		next Man; with a switch	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent eye=Patient with switch=Instrument

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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