The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 19
‘I do not,’ said he, ‘but I’m sure I wish it was so.’
Who acts: I, prince · What happens: not do, say, be, wish · To what, where: reel · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, prince), 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 do | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 do | nsubj |
| 3 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 said | ccomp |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 3 do | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 do | punct |
| 6 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 do | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 said | nsubj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 he | punct |
| 10 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 he | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 ’m | cc |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 ’m | nsubj |
| 13 | ’m | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 said | conj |
| 14 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 ’m | xcomp |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 wish | nsubj |
| 16 | wish | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 sure | ccomp |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 wish | obj |
| 18 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 ’m | advcl |
| 19 | so | so | ADV | _ | 18 was | advmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 21 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not do | present | I | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | prince | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | be | present | I | sure property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | wish | present | I | reel | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot it=Theme | ||||
| 5 | be | past | I not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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