The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 102
“No, it is as true as that there is a sun in heaven,” answered the young man.
Who acts: lie, sun, young man · What happens: be, answer · 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 (lie, sun, young man), 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 | _ | 7 true | punct |
| 2 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 7 true | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 No | punct |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 true | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 true | cop |
| 6 | as | as | ADV | _ | 7 true | advmod |
| 7 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 11 is | mark |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 as | fixed |
| 10 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 11 is | expl |
| 11 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 answered | advcl |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 sun | det |
| 13 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 is | nsubj |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 heaven | case |
| 15 | heaven | heaven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 sun | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 is | punct |
| 17 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 is | punct |
| 18 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 true | advcl |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 man | det |
| 20 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 man | amod |
| 21 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 answered | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 true | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | lie | true property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be in a quote | present | a sun in heaven | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | answer speech: assert | past | the young man | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: 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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