The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 82
‘Well,’ says he to the smith, ‘you’re a married man.
Who acts: you · What happens: say, be · To what, where: smith, married man · 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 (you), 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 | _ | 5 says | punct |
| 2 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 5 says | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Well | punct |
| 4 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 says | punct |
| 5 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 says | obj |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 smith | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 smith | det |
| 9 | smith | smith | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 says | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 ’re | punct |
| 11 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 ’re | punct |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 ’re | nsubj |
| 13 | ’re | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 says | conj |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 man | det |
| 15 | married | married | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 man | amod |
| 16 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 ’re | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 says | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | smith | the smith | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Topic to smith=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | does | present | you | a married man | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot man=Theme |
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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