The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 8
‘Well, now?’ says he, getting round her back to the other side.
What happens: say, get · To what, where: Man, back · 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: 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 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 7 says | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Well | punct |
| 4 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 says | advmod |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 now | punct |
| 6 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 now | punct |
| 7 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 says | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 getting | punct |
| 10 | getting | get | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 says | advcl |
| 11 | round | round | ADP | _ | 13 back | case |
| 12 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 back | nmod:poss |
| 13 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 getting | obl |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 side | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 side | det |
| 16 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 side | amod |
| 17 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 getting | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 says | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | Man | now | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent he=Topic | ||||
| 2 | get | gerund | nurse's back | to the other side | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme round back=Initial_Location to side=Destination |
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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