The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 119
So Jonas and Lena used to say of him ‘Look, there goes Walter, who shoots the wolves.’
Who acts: Jonas · What happens: use, say, look, go, shoot · To what, where: Walter, wolves · 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 (Jonas), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 5 used | advmod |
| 2 | Jonas | Jonas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 used | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 Lena | cc |
| 4 | Lena | Lena | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Jonas | conj |
| 5 | used | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 say | mark |
| 7 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 used | xcomp |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 him | case |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 Look | obl |
| 10 | ‘ | ‘ | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 Look | aux |
| 11 | Look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 say | ccomp |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 goes | punct |
| 13 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 14 goes | expl |
| 14 | goes | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 Look | parataxis |
| 15 | Walter | Walter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 goes | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 shoots | punct |
| 17 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 shoots | nsubj |
| 18 | shoots | shoot | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 goes | conj |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 wolves | det |
| 20 | wolves | wolf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 shoots | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 used | punct |
| 22 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 used | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | use | past | Jonas and Lena | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | to-infinitive | Jonas and Lena not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | look | of Jonas | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent of he=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | go | present | Walter | there | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location walter=Theme | ||||
| 5 | shoot | present | the wolves | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wolf=Theme |
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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