The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 76
‘This will never do,’ said Thuggai, the oldest of the fish tribe.
Who acts: This, Thuggai · What happens: not do, say · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (This, Thuggai), 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 do | punct |
| 2 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 do | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 do | aux |
| 4 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 5 do | advmod |
| 5 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 said | ccomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 do | punct |
| 7 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 do | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | Thuggai | Thuggai | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 said | nsubj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 oldest | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 oldest | det |
| 12 | oldest | old | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 8 said | ccomp |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 tribe | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 tribe | det |
| 15 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 tribe | compound |
| 16 | tribe | tribe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 oldest | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not do | future | This | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Thuggai | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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