The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 79
Maie had never uttered a word, but thought the more.
Who acts: Maie · What happens: not utter, think · To what, where: word
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 (Maie), 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 | Maie | Maie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 uttered | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 uttered | aux |
| 3 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 4 uttered | advmod |
| 4 | uttered | utter | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 word | det |
| 6 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 uttered | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 thought | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 thought | cc |
| 9 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 uttered | conj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 more | det |
| 11 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 9 thought | advmod |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 uttered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not utter speech: other | past · perfect | Maie | a word | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent word=Topic | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other | past | Maie not said here | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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