The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 41
‘It was well I took my drum with me,’ he thought, and went straight on with courageous steps.
Who acts: courage, I, Walter · What happens: be, take, think, go · To what, where: drum · 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 (courage, 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 | _ | 6 took | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 well | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 well | cop |
| 4 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 took | advmod |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 took | nsubj |
| 6 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 thought | advcl |
| 7 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 drum | nmod:poss |
| 8 | drum | drum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 took | obj |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 me | case |
| 10 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 took | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 took | punct |
| 12 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 took | punct |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 thought | nsubj |
| 14 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 went | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 went | cc |
| 17 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 thought | ccomp |
| 18 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 19 on | advmod |
| 19 | on | on | ADV | _ | 17 went | advmod |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 steps | case |
| 21 | courageous | courageous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 steps | amod |
| 22 | steps | step | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 went | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | courage | well property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | take | past | I | my drum | with me | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent drum=Theme | |||
| 3 | think speech: other | past | Walter | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | go | past | with courageous steps | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with step=Beneficiary |
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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