The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 15, sentence 104

'That were a great pity,' answered Iarlaid. '

Who acts: That, great pity · What happens: be, answer · To what, where: great pity, Iarlaid

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (That, great pity), 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	_	6 pity	punct
2	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 pity	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 pity	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 pity	det
5	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 pity	amod
6	pity	pity	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 answered	nsubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 pity	punct
8	'	'	PUNCT	_	6 pity	punct
9	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	Iarlaid	Iarlaid	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 answered	obj
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 answered	punct
12	'	'	PUNCT	_	9 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	That	a great pity					tree rules
2	answer speech: assert	past	a great pity		Iarlaid				vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent iarlaid=Eventuality

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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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