The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 68
‘I meant nothing, lady,’ replied Kai; ‘thy praise of Owen is not greater than mine.’
Who acts: I, praise, thy · What happens: mean, reply, not be, praise · To what, where: nothing, Kai, Owen
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 (I, praise, thy), 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 | _ | 3 meant | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 meant | nsubj |
| 3 | meant | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 3 meant | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 lady | punct |
| 6 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 nothing | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 replied | punct |
| 8 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 replied | punct |
| 9 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 meant | conj |
| 10 | Kai | Kai | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 replied | iobj |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 greater | punct |
| 12 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 praise | punct |
| 13 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 14 praise | nmod:poss |
| 14 | praise | praise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 greater | nsubj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 Owen | case |
| 16 | Owen | Owen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 praise | nmod |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 greater | cop |
| 18 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 greater | advmod |
| 19 | greater | great | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 3 meant | conj |
| 20 | than | than | ADP | _ | 21 mine | case |
| 21 | mine | my | PRON | Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 greater | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 meant | punct |
| 23 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 meant | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | past | I | nothing | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic | ||||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | past | I not said here | Kai | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent kai=Topic | ||||
| 3 | not is | present | thy praise of Owen | than mine; great property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | praise | thy | Owen | nom praise «communication transitive»: poss=agent of=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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