The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 85
Besides, there is no need to lift the lid off altogether.
Who acts: need · What happens: be, lift off · To what, where: lid
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 (need), 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 | Besides | besides | INTJ | _ | 4 is | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Besides | punct |
| 3 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 4 is | expl |
| 4 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 6 need | det |
| 6 | need | need | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 is | nsubj |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 lift | mark |
| 8 | lift | lift | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 need | acl |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 lid | det |
| 10 | lid | lid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 lift | obj |
| 11 | off | off | ADP | _ | 8 lift | compound:prt |
| 12 | altogether | altogether | ADV | _ | 8 lift | advmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 is | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | present | no need | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | lift off | to-infinitive | no need not said here | the lid | altogether property | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lid=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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