The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 38
‘That is my brother, and swifter still than I,’ said the horse, ‘and he will fly past me with a rush.
Who acts: That, brother · What happens: be, say, fly · To what, where: brother, 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 (That, brother), 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 | _ | 5 brother | punct |
| 2 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 brother | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 brother | cop |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 brother | nmod:poss |
| 5 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 said | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 swifter | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 swifter | cc |
| 8 | swifter | swifter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 brother | appos |
| 9 | still | still | ADV | _ | 11 I | advmod |
| 10 | than | than | ADP | _ | 11 I | case |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 swifter | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 brother | punct |
| 13 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 brother | punct |
| 14 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 horse | det |
| 16 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 said | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 ‘ | punct |
| 18 | ‘ | ‘ | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 horse | conj |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 fly | cc |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 fly | nsubj |
| 21 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 fly | aux |
| 22 | fly | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 said | conj |
| 23 | past | past | ADP | _ | 24 me | case |
| 24 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 fly | obl |
| 25 | with | with | ADP | _ | 27 rush | case |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 rush | det |
| 27 | rush | rush | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 fly | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | That | my brother | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | my brother | the horse and ‘ | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent horse=Topic | ||||
| 3 | fly | future | brother | past me; with a rush | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme past i=Trajectory |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/9/38/