The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 86

‘I don’t say it is,’ replied the young rascal, ‘but I should never like it.

Who acts: I, bishop · What happens: not say, be, reply, not like · To what, where: young rascal, 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 (I, 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	_	5 say	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 say	nsubj
3	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 say	aux
4	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 say	advmod
5	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 replied	ccomp
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 is	nsubj
7	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 say	ccomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 say	punct
9	’	'	PUNCT	_	10 replied	punct
10	replied	reply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 rascal	det
12	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 rascal	amod
13	rascal	rascal	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 replied	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 like	punct
15	‘	'	PUNCT	_	20 like	punct
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	20 like	cc
17	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 like	nsubj
18	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 like	aux
19	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	20 like	advmod
20	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 replied	conj
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 like	obj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 replied	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	not say speech: assert	present · do-support	I		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	be	present	bishop		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	reply speech: assert	past		the young rascal	tree rules
4	not like	should	I	bishop	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot it=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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