The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 74
‘I’m not so sure of that,’ said Matte, as he shook his head.
Who acts: I, Matte, Ahti · What happens: not be, say, shake · To what, where: head · 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 (I, Matte, Ahti), 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 ’m | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 ’m | nsubj |
| 3 | ’m | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 said | ccomp |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 3 ’m | advmod |
| 5 | so | so | ADV | _ | 6 sure | advmod |
| 6 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 ’m | ccomp |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 that | case |
| 8 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 sure | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 ’m | punct |
| 10 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 ’m | punct |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | Matte | Matte | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 said | nsubj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 shook | punct |
| 14 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 16 shook | mark |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 shook | nsubj |
| 16 | shook | shake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 said | conj |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 head | nmod:poss |
| 18 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 shook | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not be | present | I | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Matte | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | shake | past | Ahti | Ahti's head | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent head=Patient |
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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