The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 17
In truth I never did write any fairy books in my life, except ‘Prince Prigio,’ ‘Prince Ricardo,’ and ‘Tales from a Fairy Court’--that of the aforesaid Prigio.
Who acts: I · What happens: not write · To what, where: fairy books, truth
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), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 truth | case |
| 2 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 write | obl |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 write | nsubj |
| 4 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 6 write | advmod |
| 5 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 write | aux |
| 6 | write | write | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 9 books | det |
| 8 | fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 books | compound |
| 9 | books | book | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 write | obj |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 life | case |
| 11 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 life | nmod:poss |
| 12 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 write | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 Prigio | punct |
| 14 | except | except | ADP | _ | 17 Prigio | case |
| 15 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 17 Prigio | punct |
| 16 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Prigio | nmod:desc |
| 17 | Prigio | Prigio | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 write | parataxis |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 Prigio | punct |
| 19 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 17 Prigio | punct |
| 20 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 22 Ricardo | punct |
| 21 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 Ricardo | nmod:desc |
| 22 | Ricardo | Ricardo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Prigio | conj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 Ricardo | punct |
| 24 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 22 Ricardo | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 Tales | cc |
| 26 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 27 Tales | punct |
| 27 | Tales | tale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 Ricardo | conj |
| 28 | from | from | ADP | _ | 31 Court | case |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 Court | det |
| 30 | Fairy | Fairy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 Court | compound |
| 31 | Court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 Tales | nmod |
| 32 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 22 Ricardo | punct |
| 33 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 37 aforesaid | punct |
| 34 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 37 aforesaid | nsubj |
| 35 | of | of | ADP | _ | 37 aforesaid | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 aforesaid | det |
| 37 | aforesaid | aforesaid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 Ricardo | conj |
| 38 | Prigio | Prigio | PROPN | Number=Sing | 37 aforesaid | appos |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 write | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not write | past · do-support | I | any fairy books | truth | in my life | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent book=Theme in truth=Destination |
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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