The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 24
‘No, she would certainly be frightened,’ said Walter, ‘and how would it do for a girl to go wolf-hunting?
Who acts: Walter, stone · What happens: frighten, say, do, go · To what, where: Jonas, wolf hunting · 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 (Walter, stone), 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 frightened | punct |
| 2 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 8 frightened | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 No | punct |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 frightened | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 frightened | aux |
| 6 | certainly | certainly | ADV | _ | 8 frightened | advmod |
| 7 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 frightened | aux:pass |
| 8 | frightened | frighten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 said | ccomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 frightened | punct |
| 10 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 frightened | punct |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | Walter | Walter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 said | nsubj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
| 14 | ‘ | ‘ | PUNCT | _ | 19 do | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 do | cc |
| 16 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 19 do | advmod |
| 17 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 do | aux |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 do | nsubj |
| 19 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 said | ccomp |
| 20 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 girl | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 girl | det |
| 22 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 do | obl |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 go | mark |
| 24 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 do | advcl |
| 25 | wolf | wolf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 hunting | compound |
| 26 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 25 wolf | punct |
| 27 | hunting | hunting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 go | obj |
| 28 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | frighten | would · passive | Jonas | certainly property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Walter | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | do | would | stone | for a girl | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | go | to-infinitive | stone not said here | wolf hunting | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location hunting=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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