The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 35
‘That is just what I should like to be sure of,’ answered the korigan.
Who acts: That, I · What happens: be, like, answer · To what, where: korigan · 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 (That, 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 | _ | 8 like | punct |
| 2 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 what | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 what | cop |
| 4 | just | just | ADV | _ | 5 what | advmod |
| 5 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 8 like | obj |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 like | nsubj |
| 7 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 like | aux |
| 8 | like | like | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 answered | ccomp |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 sure | mark |
| 10 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 11 sure | cop |
| 11 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 like | ccomp |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 sure | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 like | punct |
| 14 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 like | punct |
| 15 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 korigan | det |
| 17 | korigan | korigan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 answered | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | That | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | like | should | I | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 3 | is not said to happen | to-infinitive | I not said here | sure property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | answer speech: assert | past | the korigan | 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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