The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 64
‘But of a truth, Kai, no man ever confessed an adventure so much to his own dishonour, and strange indeed it seems that none other man have I ever met that knew of the black man, and the knight and the shower.’
Who acts: man, it, none man, I, horse · What happens: confess, seem, have, meet, know, dishonour · To what, where: adventure, own dishonour
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 30. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, it, none man, 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 | _ | 5 truth | punct |
| 2 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 truth | cc |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 truth | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 truth | det |
| 5 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 Kai | punct |
| 7 | Kai | Kai | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 truth | appos |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 confessed | punct |
| 9 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 10 man | det |
| 10 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 confessed | nsubj |
| 11 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 12 confessed | advmod |
| 12 | confessed | confess | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 Kai | acl:relcl |
| 13 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 adventure | det |
| 14 | adventure | adventure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 confessed | obj |
| 15 | so | so | ADV | _ | 16 much | advmod |
| 16 | much | much | ADV | _ | 20 dishonour | advmod |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 dishonour | case |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 dishonour | nmod:poss |
| 19 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 dishonour | amod |
| 20 | dishonour | dishonour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 confessed | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 strange | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 strange | cc |
| 23 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 confessed | parataxis |
| 24 | indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 23 strange | advmod |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 seems | nsubj |
| 26 | seems | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 strange | parataxis |
| 27 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 31 have | mark |
| 28 | none | none | PRON | PronType=Neg | 30 man | compound |
| 29 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 none | amod |
| 30 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 have | nsubj |
| 31 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 seems | advcl |
| 32 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 34 met | nsubj |
| 33 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 34 met | advmod |
| 34 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 have | ccomp |
| 35 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 36 knew | mark |
| 36 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 met | advcl |
| 37 | of | of | ADP | _ | 40 man | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 man | det |
| 39 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 man | amod |
| 40 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 knew | obl |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 knight | punct |
| 42 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 knight | cc |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 knight | det |
| 44 | knight | knight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 seems | parataxis |
| 45 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 47 shower | cc |
| 46 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 47 shower | det |
| 47 | shower | shower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 knight | conj |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 Kai | punct |
| 49 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 truth | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | confess | past | no man | a adventure | horse's own dishonour | ever | vn confess-37.10 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent adventure=Topic to dishonour=Recipient | ||
| 2 | seem | present | it | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | have | present | none man | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | meet | past | I | ever | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | know | past | I not said here | of the black man | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of man=Stimulus | ||||
| 6 | dishonour | horse | nom dishonour «state transitive»: poss=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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