The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 72
‘Well, let me try, if it is so nice,’ answered the Black Rogue.
Who acts: me, feeling · What happens: let, try, be, answer · To what, where: me, Black Rogue · 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 (me, feeling), 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 | _ | 4 let | punct |
| 2 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 4 let | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Well | punct |
| 4 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 answered | ccomp |
| 5 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 let | obj |
| 6 | try | try | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 let | xcomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 nice | punct |
| 8 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 12 nice | mark |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 nice | nsubj |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 nice | cop |
| 11 | so | so | ADV | _ | 12 nice | advmod |
| 12 | nice | nice | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 try | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 let | punct |
| 14 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 let | punct |
| 15 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Rogue | det |
| 17 | Black | Black | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Rogue | compound |
| 18 | Rogue | Rogue | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 answered | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let | infinitive | me | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | try | infinitive | me not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | is | present | feeling | nice property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | answer speech: assert | past | the Black Rogue | 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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