The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 28
‘I am so sorry,’ replied Peronnik, ‘but I may be wrong in calling myself a servant, for I am only a bird-catcher.
Who acts: I, sorry · What happens: be, reply, call · To what, where: Peronnik, myself · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 27. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, sorry), 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 sorry | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 sorry | nsubj |
| 3 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 sorry | cop |
| 4 | so | so | ADV | _ | 5 sorry | advmod |
| 5 | sorry | sorry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 replied | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 sorry | punct |
| 7 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 sorry | punct |
| 8 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | Peronnik | Peronnik | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 replied | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 wrong | punct |
| 11 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 16 wrong | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 wrong | cc |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 wrong | nsubj |
| 14 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 wrong | aux |
| 15 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 16 wrong | cop |
| 16 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 Peronnik | parataxis |
| 17 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 18 calling | mark |
| 18 | calling | call | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 wrong | advcl |
| 19 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 18 calling | obj |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 servant | det |
| 21 | servant | servant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 calling | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 catcher | punct |
| 23 | for | for | ADP | _ | 30 catcher | case |
| 24 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 30 catcher | nsubj |
| 25 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 catcher | cop |
| 26 | only | only | ADV | _ | 30 catcher | advmod |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 catcher | det |
| 28 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 catcher | compound |
| 29 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 28 bird | punct |
| 30 | catcher | catcher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 calling | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | I | sorry property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | past | sorry | Peronnik | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent peronnik=Topic | ||||
| 3 | is | may | I | wrong property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | call | gerund | I not said here | myself | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent myself=Theme servant=Result | ||||
| 5 | is | present | I | for a bird catcher | 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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