The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 103

‘I will become the best thief in all Erin!’ he cried, and paid no heed when his mother shook her head and murmured something about ‘the bridge of Dublin.’

Who acts: I, son, mother · What happens: become, cry, pay, shake, murmur · To what, where: best thief, heed, head, something

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 (I, son, mother), 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 become	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 become	nsubj
3	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 become	aux
4	become	become	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 thief	det
6	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	7 thief	amod
7	thief	thief	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 become	xcomp
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 Erin	case
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	10 Erin	det
10	Erin	Erin	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 thief	nmod
11	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 become	punct
12	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 become	punct
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 cried	nsubj
14	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 become	parataxis
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 paid	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 paid	cc
17	paid	pay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 cried	conj
18	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	19 heed	det
19	heed	heed	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 paid	obj
20	when	when	SCONJ	_	23 shook	mark
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 mother	nmod:poss
22	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 shook	nsubj
23	shook	shake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 paid	advcl
24	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 head	nmod:poss
25	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 shook	obj
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 murmured	cc
27	murmured	murmur	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 cried	conj
28	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	27 murmured	obj
29	about	about	ADP	_	32 bridge	case
30	‘	'	PUNCT	_	32 bridge	punct
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 bridge	det
32	bridge	bridge	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 something	nmod
33	of	of	ADP	_	34 Dublin	case
34	Dublin	Dublin	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 bridge	nmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 become	punct
36	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 become	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	become	future	I	the best thief in all Erin		vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
2	cry speech: express	past	son			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	pay	past	son not said here	no heed		vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heed=Asset
4	shake	past	son's mother	Erin's head		vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent head=Patient
5	murmur speech: other	past	son not said here	something	about the bridge of Dublin	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Topic

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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