The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 67

‘In truth,’ said Guenevere the queen, who had listened to the tale, ‘thou wert better hanged, Kai, than use such speech towards a man like Owen.’

Who acts: Guenevere, queen, Kai · What happens: say, listen, use · To what, where: truth, such speech · 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 (Guenevere, queen, Kai), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 truth	case
3	truth	truth	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 said	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 truth	punct
5	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 truth	punct
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	Guenevere	Guenevere	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 said	nsubj
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 queen	det
9	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 Guenevere	appos
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 listened	punct
11	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 listened	nsubj
12	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 listened	aux
13	listened	listen	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 queen	acl:relcl
14	to	to	ADP	_	16 tale	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 tale	det
16	tale	tale	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 listened	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 wert	punct
18	‘	'	PUNCT	_	20 wert	punct
19	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	20 wert	nsubj
20	wert	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 said	conj
21	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	20 wert	ccomp
22	hanged	hanged	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 better	amod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 Kai	punct
24	Kai	Kai	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 use	nsubj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 use	punct
26	than	than	SCONJ	_	27 use	mark
27	use	use	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 said	ccomp
28	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 speech	amod
29	speech	speech	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 use	obj
30	towards	towards	ADP	_	32 man	case
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 man	det
32	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 use	obl
33	like	like	ADP	_	34 Owen	case
34	Owen	Owen	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 man	nmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct
36	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Guenevere		truth		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	listen	past · perfect	the queen			to the tale	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to tale=Theme
3	use	infinitive	Kai	such speech		towards a man like Owen	vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent speech=Patient

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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