The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 87
‘I thought that, being a magician, he was immortal, and that no one could kill him,’ replied Peronnik.
Who acts: I, magician, one, Peronnik · What happens: think, be, kill, reply · To what, where: that, magician · 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, magician, one, Peronnik), 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 | _ | 3 thought | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 thought | nsubj |
| 3 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 thought | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 magician | punct |
| 6 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 magician | cop |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 magician | det |
| 8 | magician | magician | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 thought | ccomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 immortal | punct |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 immortal | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 immortal | cop |
| 12 | immortal | immortal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 replied | ccomp |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 kill | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 kill | cc |
| 15 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 19 kill | mark |
| 16 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 17 one | det |
| 17 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 kill | nsubj |
| 18 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 kill | aux |
| 19 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 immortal | ccomp |
| 20 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 kill | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 kill | punct |
| 22 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 immortal | punct |
| 23 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 thought | parataxis |
| 24 | Peronnik | Peronnik | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 replied | nsubj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | I | that | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot that=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is a | gerund | a magician | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | is | past | magician | immortal property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | kill | could | no one | magician | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 5 | reply speech: assert | past | Peronnik | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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