The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 2

‘No,’ replied Bernez quietly, ‘but as I happened to have no work to do to-day, I thought I would just carve a cross on this stone.

Who acts: Bernez, I · What happens: reply, happen, have, do, think, carve · To what, where: work, cross, stone · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Bernez, 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 replied	punct
2	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 replied	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 No	punct
4	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 replied	punct
5	replied	reply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	Bernez	Bernez	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 replied	nsubj
7	quietly	quietly	ADV	_	5 replied	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 thought	punct
9	‘	'	PUNCT	_	25 thought	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	25 thought	cc
11	as	as	SCONJ	_	13 happened	mark
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 happened	nsubj
13	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 thought	advcl
14	to	to	PART	_	15 have	mark
15	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 happened	xcomp
16	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	17 work	det
17	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 have	obj
18	to	to	PART	_	19 do	mark
19	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 work	acl
20	to	to	ADP	_	22 day	case
21	-	-	PUNCT	_	20 to	punct
22	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 do	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 happened	punct
24	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 thought	nsubj
25	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 replied	conj
26	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	29 carve	nsubj
27	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 carve	aux
28	just	just	ADV	_	29 carve	advmod
29	carve	carve	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 thought	ccomp
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 cross	det
31	cross	cross	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 carve	obj
32	on	on	ADP	_	34 stone	case
33	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	34 stone	det
34	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 carve	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 replied	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reply speech: assert	past	Bernez				quietly property	vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	happen	past	I					tree rules
3	have	to-infinitive	I not said here	no work				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Patient
4	do	to-infinitive	I not said here	no work not said here		day		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	think speech: other	past	I					vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
6	carve	would	I	a cross	this stone			vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent cross=Theme on stone=Destination

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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