The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 11

It is an awkward question, because the fair being does not care a bawbee what I am writing; nor would she be much enlightened if I replied ‘Madam, I am engaged on a treatise intended to prove that Normal is prior to Conceptional Totemism’--though that answer would be as true in fact as obscure in significance.

Who acts: present, I, Normal, answer · What happens: be, not be, write, enlighten, reply, engage · To what, where: awkward question, bawbee, Andrew, Madam, I, treatise

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 (present, I, Normal, answer), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 question	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 question	cop
3	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 question	det
4	awkward	awkward	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 question	amod
5	question	question	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 care	punct
7	because	because	SCONJ	_	9 fair	mark
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 fair	det
9	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 care	advcl
10	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 care	cop
11	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 care	aux
12	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 care	advmod
13	care	care	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	5 question	parataxis
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 bawbee	det
15	bawbee	bawbee	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 care	obj
16	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	19 writing	obj
17	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 writing	nsubj
18	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 writing	aux
19	writing	write	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 bawbee	acl
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 enlightened	punct
21	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	26 enlightened	cc
22	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 enlightened	aux
23	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 enlightened	nsubj:pass
24	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	26 enlightened	aux:pass
25	much	much	ADV	_	26 enlightened	advmod
26	enlightened	enlighten	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 care	conj
27	if	if	SCONJ	_	29 replied	mark
28	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	29 replied	nsubj
29	replied	reply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 enlightened	advcl
30	‘	'	PUNCT	_	31 Madam	punct
31	Madam	madam	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 replied	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 engaged	punct
33	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	35 engaged	nsubj
34	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	35 engaged	aux:pass
35	engaged	engage	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 question	acl
36	on	on	ADP	_	38 treatise	case
37	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 treatise	det
38	treatise	treatise	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 engaged	obl
39	intended	intend	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	38 treatise	acl
40	to	to	PART	_	41 prove	mark
41	prove	prove	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	39 intended	advcl
42	that	that	SCONJ	_	45 prior	mark
43	Normal	Normal	PROPN	Number=Sing	45 prior	nsubj
44	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	45 prior	cop
45	prior	prior	ADJ	Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP	41 prove	ccomp
46	to	to	ADP	_	47 Conceptional	case
47	Conceptional	Conceptional	PROPN	Number=Sing	45 prior	obl
48	Totemism	Totemism	PROPN	Number=Sing	47 Conceptional	flat
49	’	'	PUNCT	_	45 prior	punct
50	--	--	PUNCT	_	57 true	punct
51	though	though	SCONJ	_	57 true	mark
52	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	53 answer	det
53	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	57 true	nsubj
54	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	57 true	aux
55	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	57 true	cop
56	as	as	ADV	_	57 true	advmod
57	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 prior	conj
58	in	in	ADP	_	59 fact	case
59	fact	fact	NOUN	Number=Sing	57 true	obl
60	as	as	ADP	_	61 obscure	case
61	obscure	obscure	NOUN	Number=Sing	59 fact	nmod
62	in	in	ADP	_	63 significance	case
63	significance	significance	NOUN	Number=Sing	61 obscure	nmod
64	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 question	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	present	present	a awkward question				tree rules
2	not is	gerund · do-support					care property	tree rules
3	write	present · progressive	I	a bawbee				vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme
4	enlighten	would · passive		Andrew				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer
5	reply speech: assert a condition, not said to happen	past	I	Madam				vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	engage	present · passive		I		a treatise		vn amalgamate-22.2-3-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
7	intend	participle		a treatise not said here				vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent
8	prove	to-infinitive						vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
9	is	present	Normal		Conceptional		prior property	tree rules
10	is	would	that answer			fact as obscure in significance	true property	tree rules

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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