The Yellow Fairy Book, The Flying Ship(24), sentence 25
He shared them with the manikin, who licked his lips and said:
Who acts: Simpleton, manikin · What happens: share, lick, say · To what, where: rolls, lips · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Flying Ship(24). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Simpleton, manikin), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 shared | nsubj |
| 2 | shared | share | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 shared | obj |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 manikin | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 manikin | det |
| 6 | manikin | manikin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 shared | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 licked | punct |
| 8 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 licked | nsubj |
| 9 | licked | lick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 manikin | acl:relcl |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 lips | nmod:poss |
| 11 | lips | lip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 licked | obj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 said | cc |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 shared | conj |
| 14 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | share | past | Simpleton | rolls = roll | with the manikin | tree rules | |||
| 2 | lick | past | the manikin | Simpleton's lips | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent lip=Source | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | Simpleton not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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