The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 16

‘Of course,’ said the king, ‘it may not be the right man, after all, but then again it MAY be.

Who acts: apple · What happens: say, not be, be · To what, where: king, right man · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (apple), 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	_	6 said	punct
2	Of	of	ADP	ExtPos=ADV	6 said	advmod
3	course	course	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Of	fixed
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Of	punct
5	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 king	det
8	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 said	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 man	punct
10	‘	'	PUNCT	_	17 man	punct
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 man	nsubj
12	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 man	aux
13	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	17 man	advmod
14	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	17 man	cop
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 man	det
16	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 man	amod
17	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 king	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 all	punct
19	after	after	ADP	_	20 all	case
20	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 said	ccomp
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 be	punct
22	but	but	CCONJ	_	27 be	cc
23	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	24 again	advmod
24	again	again	ADV	_	27 be	advmod
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 be	nsubj
26	MAY	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 be	aux
27	be	be	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 all	conj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past		the king and the right man		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent king=Topic
2	not is a	may	apple	the right man		tree rules
3	be	may	apple		again	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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