The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 85

‘Dear me,’ exclaimed the beggar, ‘yet it isn’t such a bad thing to be a bishop.’

Who acts: me, bishop · What happens: exclaim, not be, be · To what, where: beggar, bad thing, bishop · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (me, bishop), 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	_	3 me	punct
2	Dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 me	amod
3	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 exclaimed	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 me	punct
5	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 me	punct
6	exclaimed	exclaim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 beggar	det
8	beggar	beggar	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 exclaimed	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 thing	punct
10	‘	'	PUNCT	_	18 thing	punct
11	yet	yet	ADV	_	18 thing	advmod
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 thing	nsubj
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 thing	cop
14	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	18 thing	advmod
15	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	18 thing	det:predet
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 thing	det
17	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 thing	amod
18	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 exclaimed	ccomp
19	to	to	PART	_	22 bishop	mark
20	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	22 bishop	cop
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 bishop	det
22	bishop	bishop	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 thing	appos
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	22 bishop	punct
24	’	'	PUNCT	_	22 bishop	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	exclaim speech: express	past	me	the beggar		vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent beggar=Topic
2	not is a	present	bishop	such bad thing	yet	tree rules
3	is a	to-infinitive		a bishop		tree rules

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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