The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 30

‘That would be fine fun,’ said he; ‘but you are not strong enough to hold me up.’

Who acts: That, path, you · What happens: be, say, not be, hold up · To what, where: fine fun, me · 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 (That, path, you), 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 fun	punct
2	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 fun	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 fun	aux
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 fun	cop
5	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 fun	amod
6	fun	fun	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 said	ccomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 fun	punct
8	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 fun	punct
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 said	nsubj
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct
12	‘	'	PUNCT	_	17 strong	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 strong	cc
14	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 strong	nsubj
15	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 strong	cop
16	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	17 strong	advmod
17	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 said	parataxis
18	enough	enough	ADV	_	17 strong	advmod
19	to	to	PART	_	20 hold	mark
20	hold	hold	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 strong	advcl
21	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 hold	obj
22	up	up	ADP	_	20 hold	compound:prt
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 strong	punct
24	’	'	PUNCT	_	17 strong	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	would	That	fine fun		tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	path			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	not is	present	you		enough, strong property	tree rules
4	hold up	to-infinitive	you not said here	me		vn support-15.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot i=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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