The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 115
‘Oh, it is nothing but your fancy,’ said his wife.
Who acts: roof, nothing, your · What happens: be, say, fancy · To what, where: nothing, wife · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (roof, nothing, your), 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 | _ | 6 nothing | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 6 nothing | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 nothing | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 nothing | cop |
| 6 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 12 said | nsubj |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 fancy | cc |
| 8 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 fancy | nmod:poss |
| 9 | fancy | fancy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 nothing | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 nothing | punct |
| 11 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 nothing | punct |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 wife | nmod:poss |
| 14 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 said | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | roof | nothing | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | nothing | twirling's wife | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent wife=Topic | ||||
| 3 | fancy | your | nom fancy «cognition transitive»: poss=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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