The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 30

‘It is a good shoe,’ he said to himself, ‘but very dirty.

Who acts: rock, man · What happens: be, say · To what, where: good shoe, man · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (rock, man), 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	_	6 shoe	punct
2	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 shoe	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 shoe	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 shoe	det
5	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 shoe	amod
6	shoe	shoe	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 said	ccomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 shoe	punct
8	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 shoe	punct
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 said	nsubj
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	to	to	ADP	_	12 himself	case
12	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	10 said	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 dirty	punct
14	‘	'	PUNCT	_	17 dirty	punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 dirty	cc
16	very	very	ADV	_	17 dirty	advmod
17	dirty	dirty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 said	ccomp
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	rock	a good shoe					tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	man		man				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to himself=Recipient

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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