The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 112
He cannot read yet, but he can do many other things.
Who acts: Walter · What happens: not read, do · To what, where: many other things
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 (Walter), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 read | nsubj |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 read | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 read | advmod |
| 4 | read | read | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 4 read | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 do | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 do | cc |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 do | nsubj |
| 9 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 do | aux |
| 10 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 read | conj |
| 11 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 things | amod |
| 12 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 things | amod |
| 13 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 do | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 read | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not read | can | Walter | yet | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | do | can | Walter | many other things | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality |
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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