The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 52

‘They have lied to me, and you are not dead after all, nor the boy either!

Who acts: stories, you · What happens: lie, not be · To what, where: me

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 (stories, 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	_	4 lied	punct
2	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 lied	nsubj
3	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 lied	aux
4	lied	lie	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 me	case
6	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 lied	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 dead	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 dead	cc
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 dead	nsubj
10	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 dead	cop
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 dead	advmod
12	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 lied	conj
13	after	after	ADP	_	14 all	case
14	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	12 dead	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 boy	punct
16	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	18 boy	cc
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 boy	det
18	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lied	obl:agent
19	either	either	ADV	PronType=Ind	4 lied	advmod
20	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 lied	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lie	present · perfect	stories = story		me			either property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	not is	present	you				after all	dead property	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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