The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 116
‘Oh! he had nothing to fear from me,’ replied the white-bearded man, ‘I am Rogear’s elder brother, the wizard Bryak.
Who acts: man, I · What happens: have, fear, reply, be · To what, where: nothing, bearded man
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, I), 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 | _ | 5 had | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 5 had | discourse |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 had | nsubj |
| 5 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 5 had | obj |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 fear | mark |
| 8 | fear | fear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 nothing | acl |
| 9 | from | from | ADP | _ | 10 me | case |
| 10 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 fear | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 replied | punct |
| 12 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 replied | punct |
| 13 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 had | conj |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 man | det |
| 15 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 bearded | amod |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 white | punct |
| 17 | bearded | bearded | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 man | amod |
| 18 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 replied | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 brother | punct |
| 20 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 26 brother | punct |
| 21 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 Rogear | nsubj |
| 22 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 Rogear | cop |
| 23 | Rogear | Rogear | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 brother | compound |
| 24 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 23 Rogear | case |
| 25 | elder | elder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 brother | compound |
| 26 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 replied | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 Bryak | punct |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 Bryak | det |
| 29 | wizard | wizard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 Bryak | amod |
| 30 | Bryak | Bryak | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 brother | appos |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | man | nothing | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient | ||||
| 2 | fear | to-infinitive | man not said here | nothing not said here | from me | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||
| 3 | reply speech: assert | past | man not said here | the bearded man | Rogear elder brother obl | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent man=Topic | |||
| 4 | is | present | I | 's Rogear | 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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