The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 8
Not a fair, nor a wedding, nor a feast in the seven parishes round, was counted worth the speaking of without ‘blind Maurice and his pipes.’
What happens: count, speak · To what, where: fair wedding, blind Maurice · 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: 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 | Not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 3 fair | advmod |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 fair | det |
| 3 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 wedding | amod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 wedding | punct |
| 5 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 7 wedding | cc |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 wedding | det |
| 7 | wedding | wedding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 counted | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 feast | punct |
| 9 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 11 feast | cc |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 feast | det |
| 11 | feast | feast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 wedding | appos |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 parishes | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 parishes | det |
| 14 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 parishes | nummod |
| 15 | parishes | parish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 feast | nmod |
| 16 | round | round | ADV | _ | 15 parishes | advmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 wedding | punct |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 counted | aux:pass |
| 19 | counted | count | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 20 | worth | worth | ADP | _ | 22 speaking | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 speaking | det |
| 22 | speaking | speaking | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 counted | obl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 Maurice | case |
| 24 | without | without | ADP | _ | 27 Maurice | case |
| 25 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 27 Maurice | punct |
| 26 | blind | blind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 Maurice | amod |
| 27 | Maurice | Maurice | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 speaking | nmod |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 pipes | cc |
| 29 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 pipes | nmod:poss |
| 30 | pipes | pipe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 Maurice | conj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 counted | punct |
| 32 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 19 counted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | count | past · passive | a fair wedding | worth the speaking of blind Maurice and Maurice's pipes | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | speak | blind Maurice and Maurice's pipes | nom speaking «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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