The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 15

‘Not so; it is our son who told you, and, as he said, so it must be.

Who acts: head, son, husband · What happens: be, tell, say · To what, where: son, you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (head, son, husband), 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 so	punct
2	Not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	3 so	advmod
3	so	so	ADV	_	root	root
4	;	;	PUNCT	_	8 son	punct
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 son	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 son	cop
7	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 son	nmod:poss
8	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 so	parataxis
9	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 told	nsubj
10	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 son	acl:relcl
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 told	iobj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 said	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 said	cc
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 said	punct
15	as	as	SCONJ	_	17 said	mark
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 said	nsubj
17	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 told	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 be	punct
19	so	so	ADV	_	22 be	advmod
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 be	nsubj
21	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 be	aux
22	be	be	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 son	conj
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 so	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	is a	present	head	our son		tree rules
2	tell speech: assert	past	our son		you	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient
3	say speech: assert	past	husband			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	be	must	head			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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