The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 29
Don’t think I blame him for it; but true is the word that says, ‘When liquor’s in sense is out’; and puff, at a breath, out he blasted his wonderful tune.
Who acts: you, I, true word, Maurice · What happens: not think, blame, be, say, blast · To what, where: Maurice, true word, wonderful tune · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, I, true word, Maurice), 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 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 think | aux |
| 2 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 3 think | advmod |
| 3 | think | think | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 blame | nsubj |
| 5 | blame | blame | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 think | ccomp |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 blame | obj |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 it | case |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 blame | obl |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 word | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 word | cc |
| 11 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 word | amod |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 word | cop |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 word | det |
| 14 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 think | obl |
| 15 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 says | nsubj |
| 16 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 word | acl:relcl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 says | punct |
| 18 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 25 out | punct |
| 19 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 21 ’s | mark |
| 20 | liquor | liquor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 ’s | nsubj |
| 21 | ’s | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 out | advcl |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 sense | case |
| 23 | sense | sense | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 ’s | obl |
| 24 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 out | cop |
| 25 | out | out | ADV | _ | 16 says | ccomp |
| 26 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 25 out | punct |
| 27 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 29 puff | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 puff | cc |
| 29 | puff | puff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 word | conj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 breath | punct |
| 31 | at | at | ADP | _ | 33 breath | case |
| 32 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 breath | det |
| 33 | breath | breath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 word | conj |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 blasted | punct |
| 35 | out | out | ADV | _ | 37 blasted | advmod |
| 36 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 blasted | nsubj |
| 37 | blasted | blast | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 word | conj |
| 38 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 40 tune | nmod:poss |
| 39 | wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 tune | amod |
| 40 | tune | tune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 blasted | obj |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 think | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not think speech: other | imperative · do-support | you not said here | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | blame | present | I | Maurice | for head | vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent he=Theme for it=Attribute | |||
| 3 | is a | present | the true word and puff and a breath | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | present | the true word and puff and a breath | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | is | present | out property | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | blast | past | Maurice | Maurice's wonderful tune | out property | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location tune=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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