The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 42

‘That may be,’ said her husband.

Who acts: That, husband · What happens: be, say · 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 (That, 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	_	4 be	punct
2	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 be	nsubj
3	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 be	aux
4	be	be	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 said	ccomp
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 be	punct
6	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 be	punct
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 husband	nmod:poss
9	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	nsubj
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	may	That						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	cow's husband						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic

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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