The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 65
‘Would it not be well,’ said Owen, ‘to go and discover the place?’
Who acts: dishonour, Owen · What happens: not be, say, go, discover · To what, where: place · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (dishonour, Owen), 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 be | punct |
| 2 | Would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 be | aux |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 be | nsubj |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 be | advmod |
| 5 | be | be | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 said | ccomp |
| 6 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 be | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 be | punct |
| 8 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 be | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | Owen | Owen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 said | nsubj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 go | punct |
| 12 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 go | punct |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 go | mark |
| 14 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 9 said | ccomp |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 discover | cc |
| 16 | discover | discover | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 14 go | conj |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 place | det |
| 18 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 discover | obj |
| 19 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 14 go | punct |
| 20 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not be | would | dishonour | well property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Owen | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | go | to-infinitive | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | discover | infinitive | the place | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Topic |
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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