The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 117
‘The other princes didn’t think so,’ says he.
Who acts: other princes · What happens: not think, say · To what, where: dinner · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (other princes), 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 | _ | 7 think | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 princes | det |
| 3 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 princes | amod |
| 4 | princes | prince | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 think | nsubj |
| 5 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 think | aux |
| 6 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 think | advmod |
| 7 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | so | so | ADV | _ | 7 think | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 says | punct |
| 10 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 says | punct |
| 11 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 think | conj |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 says | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 think | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not think speech: other | past · do-support | the other princes | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | present | the other princes not said here | dinner | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent he=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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