The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 73
‘I cannot fight that giant,’ he cried, looking at the dog with a white face.
Who acts: I, heart · What happens: not fight, cry, look · To what, where: giant
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 (I, heart), 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 fight | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 fight | nsubj |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 fight | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 fight | advmod |
| 5 | fight | fight | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 cried | parataxis |
| 6 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 giant | nsubj |
| 7 | giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 fight | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 fight | punct |
| 9 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 fight | punct |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 cried | nsubj |
| 11 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 looking | punct |
| 13 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 cried | advcl |
| 14 | at | at | ADP | _ | 16 dog | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 dog | det |
| 16 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 looking | obl |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 face | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 face | det |
| 19 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 face | amod |
| 20 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 looking | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not fight | can | I | giant | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent giant=Co-Agent | ||||
| 2 | cry speech: express | past | heart | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | look | gerund | heart not said here | at the dog; with a white face | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at dog=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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/9/73/