The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 30
‘I shall show that I am not frightened,’ he said; and so he took his drum, sabre, cock’s feather, clasp-knife, pop-gun and air-pistol, and went off quite alone to the wood to hunt wolves.
Who acts: I, Walter · What happens: show, not frighten, say, take, go off, hunt · To what, where: I, drum, wolves · 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 (I, 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 | _ | 4 show | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 show | nsubj |
| 3 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 show | aux |
| 4 | show | show | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 frightened | mark |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 frightened | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 frightened | aux:pass |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 frightened | advmod |
| 9 | frightened | frighten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 said | advcl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 frightened | punct |
| 11 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 frightened | punct |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 said | nsubj |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 show | ccomp |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 took | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 took | cc |
| 16 | so | so | ADV | _ | 18 took | advmod |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 took | nsubj |
| 18 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 show | parataxis |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 drum | nmod:poss |
| 20 | drum | drum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 took | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 sabre | punct |
| 22 | sabre | sabre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 drum | conj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 feather | punct |
| 24 | cock | cock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 feather | nmod:poss |
| 25 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 24 cock | case |
| 26 | feather | feather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 drum | conj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 knife | punct |
| 28 | clasp | clasp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 knife | compound |
| 29 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 28 clasp | punct |
| 30 | knife | knife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 drum | conj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 gun | punct |
| 32 | pop | pop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 gun | compound |
| 33 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 32 pop | punct |
| 34 | gun | gun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 drum | conj |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 pistol | cc |
| 36 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 pistol | compound |
| 37 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 36 air | punct |
| 38 | pistol | pistol | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 gun | conj |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 went | punct |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 went | cc |
| 41 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 took | conj |
| 42 | off | off | ADV | _ | 41 went | advmod |
| 43 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 44 alone | advmod |
| 44 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 41 went | advmod |
| 45 | to | to | ADP | _ | 47 wood | case |
| 46 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 47 wood | det |
| 47 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 went | obl |
| 48 | to | to | PART | _ | 49 hunt | mark |
| 49 | hunt | hunt | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 41 went | advcl |
| 50 | wolves | wolf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 49 hunt | obj |
| 51 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 show | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | show | shall | I | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | not frighten | present · passive | I | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | Walter | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | take | past | Walter | Walter's drum and sabre and cock's feather and clasp knife and pop gun and air pistol | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent drum=Theme | ||||
| 5 | go off | past | Walter not said here | to the wood; alone, off property | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | hunt | to-infinitive | Walter not said here | wolves | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wolf=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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