The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 4
‘I don’t care,’ answered the Shifty Lad.
Who acts: I · What happens: do, answer · To what, where: care, Shifty Lad
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 (I), 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 | _ | 3 do | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 do | nsubj |
| 3 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 answered | advcl |
| 4 | n’t | n't | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 care | det |
| 5 | care | care | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 do | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 do | punct |
| 7 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 do | punct |
| 8 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Lad | det |
| 10 | Shifty | shifty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 Lad | amod |
| 11 | Lad | Lad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 answered | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | present | I | n't care | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent care=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | past | the Shifty Lad | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent lad=Eventuality |
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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