The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 63
‘It is my only treasure, and I set great store by it,’ answered the boy, pretending to hesitate.
Who acts: whistle, I, only treasure · What happens: be, set, answer, pretend, hesitate · To what, where: only treasure, great store, boy
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (whistle, I, only treasure), 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 treasure | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 treasure | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 treasure | cop |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 treasure | nmod:poss |
| 5 | only | only | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 treasure | amod |
| 6 | treasure | treasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 answered | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 set | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 set | cc |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 set | nsubj |
| 10 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 treasure | conj |
| 11 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 store | amod |
| 12 | store | store | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 set | obj |
| 13 | by | by | ADP | _ | 14 it | case |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 set | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 treasure | punct |
| 16 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 treasure | punct |
| 17 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 boy | det |
| 19 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 answered | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 pretending | punct |
| 21 | pretending | pretend | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 answered | advcl |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 hesitate | mark |
| 23 | hesitate | hesitate | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 pretending | xcomp |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | whistle | my only treasure | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | set | present | I | great store | by whistle | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent store=Theme by it=Destination | |||
| 3 | answer speech: assert | past | my only treasure | the boy | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent boy=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | pretend | gerund | my only treasure not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | hesitate | to-infinitive | my only treasure not said here | vn linger-53.1 «NP V PP.location»: 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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