The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 23
She can sit on a stone and look on,’ said Jonas.
Who acts: thing, Jonas · What happens: sit, look on, say · To what, where: stone · 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 (thing, Jonas), 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 | 3 sit | nsubj |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 sit | aux |
| 3 | sit | sit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 stone | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 stone | det |
| 6 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sit | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 look | cc |
| 8 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 sit | conj |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 look | compound:prt |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
| 11 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 sit | parataxis |
| 13 | Jonas | Jonas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 said | nsubj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sit | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | can | thing | a stone | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on stone=Location | ||||
| 2 | look on | infinitive | thing not said here | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | Jonas | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
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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