The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 22

The object of these confessions is not only that of advertising my own fairy books (which are not ‘out of print’; if your bookseller says so, the truth is not in him), but of giving credit where credit is due.

Who acts: object, own fairy books, bookseller, truth, credit · What happens: be, not be, say, give · To what, where: print, credit · 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 (object, own fairy books, bookseller, truth), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 object	det
2	object	object	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 advertising	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 confessions	case
4	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	5 confessions	det
5	confessions	confession	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 object	nmod
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 advertising	cop
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 that	advmod
8	only	only	ADV	_	9 that	advmod
9	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	11 advertising	nsubj
10	of	of	SCONJ	_	11 advertising	mark
11	advertising	advertise	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
12	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 books	nmod:poss
13	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 books	amod
14	fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 books	compound
15	books	book	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 advertising	obj
16	(	(	PUNCT	_	23 print	punct
17	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 print	nsubj
18	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 print	cop
19	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	23 print	advmod
20	‘	'	PUNCT	_	23 print	punct
21	out	out	ADP	_	23 print	case
22	of	of	ADP	_	23 print	case
23	print	print	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 books	appos
24	’	'	PUNCT	_	23 print	punct
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	29 says	punct
26	if	if	SCONJ	_	29 says	mark
27	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 bookseller	nmod:poss
28	bookseller	bookseller	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 says	nsubj
29	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 advertising	parataxis
30	so	so	ADV	_	29 says	advmod
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 him	punct
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 truth	det
33	truth	truth	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 him	nsubj
34	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	37 him	cop
35	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	37 him	advmod
36	in	in	ADP	_	37 him	case
37	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 says	ccomp
38	)	)	PUNCT	_	37 him	punct
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 giving	punct
40	but	but	CCONJ	_	42 giving	cc
41	of	of	SCONJ	_	42 giving	mark
42	giving	give	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 advertising	advcl
43	credit	credit	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 giving	obj
44	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	47 due	advmod
45	credit	credit	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 due	nsubj
46	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	47 due	cop
47	due	due	ADJ	Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP	43 credit	amod
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 advertising	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	the object of this confessions			advertise property	tree rules
2	not is	present	my own fairy books		print		tree rules
3	say speech: assert	present	your bookseller				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	not is	present	the truth			in Prince	tree rules
5	give	gerund	the object of this confessions not said here	credit			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent credit=Theme
6	is	present	credit			due 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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