The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 38
‘That is a pity,’ returned the young man politely, but in his heart he rejoiced, for he wished to be alone.
Who acts: That, pity · What happens: be, return, rejoice, wish · To what, where: pity, young man, heart
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (That, pity), 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 pity | punct |
| 2 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 pity | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 pity | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 pity | det |
| 5 | pity | pity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 returned | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 pity | punct |
| 7 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 pity | punct |
| 8 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 man | det |
| 10 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 man | amod |
| 11 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 returned | obj |
| 12 | politely | politely | ADV | _ | 8 returned | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 rejoiced | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 rejoiced | cc |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 heart | case |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 heart | nmod:poss |
| 17 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 rejoiced | obl |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 rejoiced | nsubj |
| 19 | rejoiced | rejoice | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 returned | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 wished | punct |
| 21 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 23 wished | mark |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 wished | nsubj |
| 23 | wished | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 rejoiced | conj |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 alone | mark |
| 25 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 26 alone | cop |
| 26 | alone | alone | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 wished | advcl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 returned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | That | a pity | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | return | past | a pity | the young man | politely property | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Theme | |||
| 3 | rejoice | past | pity | pity's heart | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | wish | past | pity | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 5 | is | to-infinitive | pity not said here | alone property | 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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