The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 8
‘I have many things to cry for,’ she replied, ‘more than you could ever guess.’
Who acts: I, woman, you · What happens: have, cry, reply, guess · To what, where: many things, more
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, woman, you), 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 have | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 have | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 things | amod |
| 5 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 have | obj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 cry | mark |
| 7 | cry | cry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 things | acl |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 cry | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 replied | punct |
| 10 | ’ | ' | CCONJ | _ | 12 replied | cc |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 replied | nsubj |
| 12 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 have | parataxis |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 more | punct |
| 14 | ‘ | ‘ | CCONJ | _ | 15 more | cc |
| 15 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 12 replied | obj |
| 16 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 20 guess | mark |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 guess | nsubj |
| 18 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 guess | aux |
| 19 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 20 guess | advmod |
| 20 | guess | guess | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 more | advcl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 have | punct |
| 22 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | I | many things | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Patient | ||||
| 2 | cry speech: express | to-infinitive | I not said here | many things not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | reply speech: assert | past | woman | more | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent more=Topic | ||||
| 4 | guess | could | you | ever | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
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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