The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 33
‘We are swifter than those,’ said the horse, and flew on again.
Who acts: We, swifter · What happens: be, say, fly on · To what, where: horse · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (We, swifter), 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 swifter | punct |
| 2 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 swifter | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 swifter | cop |
| 4 | swifter | swift | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 9 said | nsubj |
| 5 | than | than | ADP | _ | 6 those | case |
| 6 | those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 4 swifter | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 those | punct |
| 8 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 swifter | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 horse | det |
| 11 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 flew | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 flew | cc |
| 14 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 said | conj |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 flew | compound:prt |
| 16 | again | again | ADV | _ | 14 flew | advmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | We | than those; swift property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | swifter | the horse | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent horse=Topic | ||||
| 3 | fly on | past | swifter not said here | again | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «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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