The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 39
Then they found their tongues, and exclaimed together:
Who acts: burner · What happens: find, exclaim · To what, where: tongues
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 (burner), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 found | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 found | nsubj |
| 3 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 tongues | nmod:poss |
| 5 | tongues | tongue | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 found | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 exclaimed | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 exclaimed | cc |
| 8 | exclaimed | exclaim | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 found | conj |
| 9 | together | together | ADV | _ | 8 exclaimed | advmod |
| 10 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 3 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | past | burner | burner's tongues | then | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tongue=Topic | |||
| 2 | exclaim speech: express | participle | burner not said here | together property | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=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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