The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 47
And what I say is true, for her town is my town also.’
Who acts: I · What happens: say, be · To what, where: town · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 21. 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 true | cc |
| 2 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 6 true | nsubj |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 say | nsubj |
| 4 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 what | acl:relcl |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 true | cop |
| 6 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 town | punct |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 town | case |
| 9 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 town | nmod:poss |
| 10 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 town | obl |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 town | cop |
| 12 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 town | nmod:poss |
| 13 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 true | conj |
| 14 | also | also | ADV | _ | 13 town | advmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 true | punct |
| 16 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 true | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | I | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is | present | true property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | is a | present | my town | for girl's town | 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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