The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 72
She stopped, and added carelessly after a pause, ‘Don’t you ever wonder what is in that soup-tureen?’
Who acts: wife, you · What happens: stop, add, do, not wonder, be · To what, where: soup tureen · 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 (wife, 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 stopped | nsubj |
| 2 | stopped | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 added | punct |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 added | cc |
| 5 | added | add | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 stopped | conj |
| 6 | carelessly | carelessly | ADV | _ | 5 added | advmod |
| 7 | after | after | ADP | _ | 9 pause | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 pause | det |
| 9 | pause | pause | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 added | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 Do | punct |
| 11 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 Do | punct |
| 12 | Do | do | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 5 added | parataxis |
| 13 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 wonder | advmod |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 wonder | nsubj |
| 15 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 16 wonder | advmod |
| 16 | wonder | wonder | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 Do | advcl |
| 17 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 23 tureen | nsubj |
| 18 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 tureen | cop |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 tureen | case |
| 20 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 23 tureen | det |
| 21 | soup | soup | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 tureen | compound |
| 22 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 soup | punct |
| 23 | tureen | tureen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 wonder | ccomp |
| 24 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 12 Do | punct |
| 25 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 Do | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stop | past | wife | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | add speech: assert | past | wife not said here | after a pause | carelessly property | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient | |||
| 3 | do | infinitive | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | not wonder speech: ask | present | you | ever | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 5 | is | present | that soup tureen | 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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