The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 98
‘She shall also love thee not a little,’ said the maiden.
Who acts: wife · What happens: not love, say · To what, where: thee, maiden · 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 (wife), 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 love | punct |
| 2 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 love | nsubj |
| 3 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 love | aux |
| 4 | also | also | ADV | _ | 5 love | advmod |
| 5 | love | love | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 said | ccomp |
| 6 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 5 love | obj |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 love | advmod |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 little | det |
| 9 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 love | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 love | punct |
| 11 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 love | punct |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 maiden | det |
| 14 | maiden | maiden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 said | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not love | shall | wife | thee | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer thou=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the maiden | tree rules |
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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