The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 104
‘My lord,’ says he, ‘I’m very sorry for this accident, but I’m not to blame.
Who acts: lord, I · What happens: say, be, not blame · To what, where: king · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lord, 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 says | punct |
| 2 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 lord | nmod:poss |
| 3 | lord | lord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 says | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 lord | punct |
| 5 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 says | punct |
| 6 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 says | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 ’m | punct |
| 9 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 ’m | punct |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 ’m | nsubj |
| 11 | ’m | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 says | conj |
| 12 | very | very | ADV | _ | 13 sorry | advmod |
| 13 | sorry | sorry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 ’m | ccomp |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 accident | case |
| 15 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 16 accident | det |
| 16 | accident | accident | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 sorry | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 ’m | punct |
| 18 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 ’m | cc |
| 19 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 ’m | nsubj |
| 20 | ’m | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 says | conj |
| 21 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 23 blame | advmod |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 blame | mark |
| 23 | blame | blame | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 ’m | xcomp |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 says | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | My lord | king | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent he=Topic | ||||
| 2 | be | present | I | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | be | present | I | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | not blame | to-infinitive | I not said here | vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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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