The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 101
“That is nothing but a lie from beginning to end,” said the herdsman.
Who acts: That, lie, herdsman · What happens: be, begin, say · To what, where: nothing · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (That, lie, herdsman), 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 nothing | punct |
| 2 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 nothing | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 nothing | cop |
| 4 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 14 said | nsubj |
| 5 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 lie | cc |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 lie | det |
| 7 | lie | lie | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 nothing | conj |
| 8 | from | from | SCONJ | _ | 9 beginning | mark |
| 9 | beginning | begin | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 lie | acl |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 end | case |
| 11 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 beginning | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 nothing | punct |
| 13 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 nothing | 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 herdsman | det |
| 16 | herdsman | herdsman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 said | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | That | nothing | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | begin in a quote | gerund | a lie not said here | to end | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the herdsman | 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 Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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