The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 22
‘Well, then, Walter can take the miller’s little Lisa with him.
Who acts: Walter · What happens: take · To what, where: little Lisa
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 (Walter), 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 | _ | 8 take | punct |
| 2 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 8 take | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Well | punct |
| 4 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 take | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 then | punct |
| 6 | Walter | Walter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 take | nsubj |
| 7 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 take | aux |
| 8 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 miller | det |
| 10 | miller | miller | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 Lisa | nmod:poss |
| 11 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 10 miller | case |
| 12 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 Lisa | amod |
| 13 | Lisa | Lisa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 take | obj |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 him | case |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 Lisa | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | can | Walter | the miller's little Lisa | then | with Lisa | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument lisa=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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