The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 90
‘Be not so downcast,’ replied the otter; ‘before noon to-morrow thou shalt behold thy wife.
Who acts: downcast, thou · What happens: not be, reply, behold · To what, where: otter, wife
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 (downcast, thou), 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 downcast | punct |
| 2 | Be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 downcast | cop |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 downcast | advmod |
| 4 | so | so | ADV | _ | 5 downcast | advmod |
| 5 | downcast | downcast | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 replied | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 downcast | punct |
| 7 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 downcast | punct |
| 8 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 otter | det |
| 10 | otter | otter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 replied | obj |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 behold | punct |
| 12 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 20 behold | punct |
| 13 | before | before | ADP | _ | 14 noon | case |
| 14 | noon | noon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 behold | obl |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 morrow | case |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 to | punct |
| 17 | morrow | morrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 noon | nmod |
| 18 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 20 behold | nsubj |
| 19 | shalt | shall | AUX | Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin | 20 behold | aux |
| 20 | behold | behold | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 replied | conj |
| 21 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 22 wife | nmod:poss |
| 22 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 behold | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | infinitive | downcast property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | past | downcast | the otter | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent otter=Topic | ||||
| 3 | behold | shall | thou | thy wife | noon | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer wife=Stimulus |
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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