The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 106
But the dark lad did not tell him of the name that was written underneath his arm.
Who acts: dark lad · What happens: not tell, write · To what, where: robber, name · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dark lad), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 tell | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 lad | det |
| 3 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 lad | amod |
| 4 | lad | lad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 tell | nsubj |
| 5 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 tell | aux |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 tell | advmod |
| 7 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 tell | iobj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 name | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 name | det |
| 11 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 tell | obl |
| 12 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 written | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 written | aux:pass |
| 14 | written | write | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 name | acl:relcl |
| 15 | underneath | underneath | ADP | _ | 17 arm | case |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 arm | nmod:poss |
| 17 | arm | arm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 written | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 tell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not tell speech: assert | past · do-support | the dark lad | robber | of the name | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | |||
| 2 | write | past · passive | the name | underneath robber's arm | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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