The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 20
‘I am persuaded,’ said the countess, ‘that this man and no other chased the soul from the body of my lord.’
Who acts: man · What happens: persuade, say, chase · To what, where: I, countess, soul, body · 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 (man), 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 | _ | 4 persuaded | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 persuaded | nsubj |
| 3 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 persuaded | aux:pass |
| 4 | persuaded | persuade | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 said | ccomp |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 persuaded | punct |
| 6 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 persuaded | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 countess | det |
| 9 | countess | countess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 chased | punct |
| 11 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 18 chased | punct |
| 12 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 18 chased | mark |
| 13 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 14 man | det |
| 14 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 chased | nsubj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 other | cc |
| 16 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 17 other | det |
| 17 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 man | conj |
| 18 | chased | chase | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 said | conj |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 soul | det |
| 20 | soul | soul | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 chased | obj |
| 21 | from | from | ADP | _ | 23 body | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 body | det |
| 23 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 chased | obl |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 lord | case |
| 25 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 lord | nmod:poss |
| 26 | lord | lord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 body | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 28 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | persuade | present · passive | I | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the countess | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | chase | past | this man | the soul | the body of my lord | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent soul=Theme from body=Trajectory |
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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