The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 52
‘No, I will go to the kiln,’ thought Walter, and so he went.
Who acts: I, Walter · What happens: go, think · To what, where: kiln, Walter · 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 | _ | 6 go | punct |
| 2 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 6 go | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 No | punct |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 go | nsubj |
| 5 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 go | aux |
| 6 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 thought | ccomp |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 kiln | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 kiln | det |
| 9 | kiln | kiln | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 go | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 go | punct |
| 11 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 go | punct |
| 12 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | Walter | Walter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 thought | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 went | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 went | cc |
| 16 | so | so | ADV | _ | 18 went | advmod |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 went | nsubj |
| 18 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 thought | conj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | future | I | the kiln | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to kiln=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other | past | Walter | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent walter=Attribute clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | go | past | Walter | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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