The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 4
‘Oh, sir,’ says she, very foolish, ‘I hope your lady is well, and the baby.’
Who acts: I, lady · What happens: say, hope, be · To what, where: nurse · 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 (I, lady), 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 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 4 sir | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | sir | sir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 says | ccomp |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 sir | punct |
| 6 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 says | punct |
| 7 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 says | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 foolish | punct |
| 10 | very | very | ADV | _ | 11 foolish | advmod |
| 11 | foolish | foolish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 says | ccomp |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 hope | punct |
| 13 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 hope | punct |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 hope | nsubj |
| 15 | hope | hope | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 says | parataxis |
| 16 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 lady | nmod:poss |
| 17 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 well | nsubj |
| 18 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 well | cop |
| 19 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 15 hope | ccomp |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 baby | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 baby | cc |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 baby | det |
| 23 | baby | baby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 hope | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 says | punct |
| 25 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 says | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | nurse | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent she=Topic | |||||
| 2 | hope | present | I | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 3 | is | present | your lady | well property | tree rules |
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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