The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 61
And who knows but ‘tis grandmother I may be to a hake or a cod--Lord help and pity me, but ‘tis a mighty unnatural thing!
Who acts: tis grandmother · What happens: know, be, pity, ti · To what, where: me, mighty unnatural thing
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 (tis grandmother), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 knows | cc |
| 2 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 3 knows | nsubj |
| 3 | knows | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 hake | cc |
| 5 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 grandmother | punct |
| 6 | tis | tis | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 grandmother | compound |
| 7 | grandmother | grandmother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 hake | nsubj |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 hake | nsubj |
| 9 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 hake | aux |
| 10 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 13 hake | cop |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 hake | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 hake | det |
| 13 | hake | hake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 knows | conj |
| 14 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 16 cod | cc |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 cod | det |
| 16 | cod | cod | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 hake | conj |
| 17 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 19 help | punct |
| 18 | Lord | Lord | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 help | compound |
| 19 | help | help | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 hake | appos |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 pity | cc |
| 21 | pity | pity | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 help | conj |
| 22 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 pity | obj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 tis | punct |
| 24 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 26 tis | cc |
| 25 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 26 tis | punct |
| 26 | tis | ti | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 knows | conj |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 thing | det |
| 28 | mighty | mighty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 thing | amod |
| 29 | unnatural | unnatural | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 thing | amod |
| 30 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 tis | obj |
| 31 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 knows | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | present | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 2 | is | may | tis grandmother | to a hake or a cod | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | pity | infinitive | tis grandmother not said here | me | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | ti | present | a mighty unnatural thing | 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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