The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 57
‘It is better for me to beat the drum,’ he thought to himself again, and so he began to beat it.
Who acts: me, shiver · What happens: be, beat, think, begin · To what, where: drum, shiver, collar
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, shiver), 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 | 14 thought | advcl |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 drum | det |
| 10 | drum | drum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 beat | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 beat | punct |
| 12 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 beat | 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 | 4 better | parataxis |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 himself | case |
| 16 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 14 thought | obl |
| 17 | again | again | ADV | _ | 14 thought | advmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 began | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 began | cc |
| 20 | so | so | ADV | _ | 22 began | advmod |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 began | nsubj |
| 22 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 thought | conj |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 beat | mark |
| 24 | beat | beat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 began | xcomp |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 beat | obj |
| 26 | . | . | 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 | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location drum=Theme | ||||
| 3 | think speech: other | past | shiver | shiver | again | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 4 | begin | past | shiver | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 5 | beat | to-infinitive | shiver not said here | collar | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=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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