The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 85
‘You will never overcome him, Sir Knight,’ replied the woman, shaking her head.
Who acts: You · What happens: not overcome, reply, shake · To what, where: magician, woman, head · 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 (You), 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 overcome | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 overcome | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 overcome | aux |
| 4 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 5 overcome | advmod |
| 5 | overcome | overcome | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 replied | ccomp |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 overcome | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 Sir | punct |
| 8 | Sir | Sir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 overcome | vocative |
| 9 | Knight | Knight | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Sir | flat |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 overcome | punct |
| 11 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 replied | punct |
| 12 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 woman | det |
| 14 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 replied | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 shaking | punct |
| 16 | shaking | shake | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 replied | advcl |
| 17 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 head | nmod:poss |
| 18 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 shaking | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not overcome | future | You | magician | Sir vocative | vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot he=Theme | |||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | past | the woman | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | shake | gerund | woman'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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