The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 100
‘No, he isn’t stupid,’ said the woman with a sigh.
Who acts: son, woman · What happens: not be, say · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (son, woman), 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 stupid | punct |
| 2 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 7 stupid | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 No | punct |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 stupid | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 stupid | cop |
| 6 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 stupid | advmod |
| 7 | stupid | stupid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 said | ccomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 stupid | punct |
| 9 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 stupid | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 woman | det |
| 12 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | nsubj |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 sigh | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 sigh | det |
| 15 | sigh | sigh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 woman | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | present | son | stupid property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the woman with a sigh | 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 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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