The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 132
‘Ah!’ said Walter, ‘do you think that there were many?’
Who acts: Walter, you · What happens: say, think, be · To what, where: many · 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 (Walter, you), 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 said | punct |
| 2 | Ah | ah | INTJ | _ | 5 said | discourse |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Ah | punct |
| 4 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Ah | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | Walter | Walter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 said | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 think | punct |
| 8 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 think | punct |
| 9 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 think | aux |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 think | nsubj |
| 11 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 said | ccomp |
| 12 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 14 were | mark |
| 13 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 14 were | expl |
| 14 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 think | ccomp |
| 15 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 were | obj |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 11 think | punct |
| 17 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 think | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Walter | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | think speech: other | present · do-support | you | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | be | past | many | there | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot many=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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