The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 48

‘With all respect,’ answered Peronnik, pretending to be very frightened, ‘I am the servant of a lady who is a friend of the noble Rogear and sends him some larks for a pasty.’

Who acts: I, lady · What happens: answer, pretend, be, send · To what, where: Peronnik, servant, friend, larks

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, lady), 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	_	7 answered	punct
2	With	with	ADP	_	4 respect	case
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 respect	det
4	respect	respect	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 answered	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 respect	punct
6	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 respect	punct
7	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	Peronnik	Peronnik	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 answered	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 pretending	punct
10	pretending	pretend	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 answered	advcl
11	to	to	PART	_	14 frightened	mark
12	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	14 frightened	cop
13	very	very	ADV	_	14 frightened	advmod
14	frightened	frightened	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 pretending	xcomp
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 servant	punct
16	‘	'	PUNCT	_	20 servant	punct
17	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 servant	nsubj
18	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 servant	cop
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 servant	det
20	servant	servant	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 frightened	conj
21	of	of	ADP	_	23 lady	case
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 lady	det
23	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 servant	nmod
24	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 friend	nsubj
25	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 friend	cop
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 friend	det
27	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 lady	acl:relcl
28	of	of	ADP	_	31 Rogear	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 Rogear	det
30	noble	noble	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 Rogear	amod
31	Rogear	Rogear	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 friend	nmod
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 sends	cc
33	sends	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 frightened	conj
34	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 sends	obj
35	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	36 larks	det
36	larks	lark	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 sends	obj
37	for	for	ADP	_	39 pasty	case
38	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	39 pasty	det
39	pasty	pasty	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 sends	obl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 answered	punct
41	’	'	PUNCT	_	7 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	answer speech: assert	past			Peronnik	with all respect	vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent peronnik=Eventuality
2	pretend	gerund					tree rules
3	is	to-infinitive				frightened property	tree rules
4	is a	present	I	the servant		of a lady	tree rules
5	is a	present	a lady	a friend		of the noble Rogear	tree rules
6	send	present		some larks	Peronnik	for a pasty	vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Destination lark=Theme

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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