The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 110
‘That shall never be,’ said Owen; ‘but what form hath this monster?’
Who acts: That, Owen · What happens: not be, say, be, have · To what, where: monster · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 31. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (That, 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 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 be | nsubj |
| 3 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 be | aux |
| 4 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 5 be | advmod |
| 5 | be | be | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 said | ccomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 be | punct |
| 7 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 be | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | Owen | Owen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 said | nsubj |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 hath | punct |
| 11 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 hath | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 hath | cc |
| 13 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 15 hath | nsubj |
| 14 | form | form | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 what | cop |
| 15 | hath | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 said | ccomp |
| 16 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 17 monster | det |
| 17 | monster | monster | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 hath | obj |
| 18 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 15 hath | punct |
| 19 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 hath | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not be | shall | That | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Owen | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | is a | present | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | have | present | this monster | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent monster=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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