The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 36
‘It is better for me to beat the drum a little before I go there,’ thought Walter.
Who acts: me, I · What happens: be, beat, go, think · To what, where: drum, Walter
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 (me, I), 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 better | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 better | expl |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 better | cop |
| 4 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 5 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 8 beat | mark |
| 6 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 beat | nsubj |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 beat | mark |
| 8 | beat | beat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 better | csubj |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 drum | det |
| 10 | drum | drum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 beat | obj |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 little | det |
| 12 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 beat | obl:unmarked |
| 13 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 15 go | mark |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 go | nsubj |
| 15 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 beat | advcl |
| 16 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 15 go | advmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 thought | punct |
| 18 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 19 thought | punct |
| 19 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 better | conj |
| 20 | Walter | Walter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 thought | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 better | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | good property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | beat | to-infinitive | me | the drum | a little obl:unmarked | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location drum=Theme | |||
| 3 | go | present | I | there | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | think speech: other | past | Walter | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot walter=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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