The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 83
‘Oh, then no one has mentioned a trade to you?’ he said in tones of disappointment.
Who acts: suddenness · What happens: mention, say, intonate · To what, where: one, tones, disappointment · 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 (suddenness), 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 | _ | 8 mentioned | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 8 mentioned | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 mentioned | advmod |
| 5 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 6 one | det |
| 6 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 mentioned | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 mentioned | aux |
| 8 | mentioned | mention | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 said | ccomp |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 trade | det |
| 10 | trade | trade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 mentioned | obj |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 you | case |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 trade | nmod |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 mentioned | punct |
| 14 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 mentioned | punct |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 said | nsubj |
| 16 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 tones | case |
| 18 | tones | tone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 said | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 disappointment | case |
| 20 | disappointment | disappointment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 tones | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mention speech: other | present · perfect · passive | no one | then | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | suddenness | tones of disappointment | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | intonate | disappointment | nom tone «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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