The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 154
‘You have brought nothing with you to-night,’ said the queen, who was standing on the steps awaiting him.
Who acts: You, queen, steps · What happens: bring, say, stand, await · To what, where: nothing, prize · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, queen, steps), 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 | _ | 4 brought | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 brought | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 brought | aux |
| 4 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 13 said | ccomp |
| 5 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 4 brought | obj |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 you | case |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 nothing | nmod |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 night | case |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 to | punct |
| 10 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 brought | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 brought | punct |
| 12 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 brought | punct |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 queen | det |
| 15 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 said | nsubj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 standing | punct |
| 17 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 standing | nsubj |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 standing | aux |
| 19 | standing | stand | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 queen | acl |
| 20 | on | on | ADP | _ | 22 steps | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 steps | det |
| 22 | steps | step | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 standing | obl |
| 23 | awaiting | await | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 22 steps | acl |
| 24 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 awaiting | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring | present · perfect | You | nothing | night | with you | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent nothing=Theme | ||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the queen | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | stand | past · progressive | the queen | on the steps | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on step=Location | ||||
| 4 | await | gerund | the steps not said here | prize | 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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