The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 79
‘That is a pity,’ replied Owen, but he said no more, for he was too weak to talk much.
Who acts: That, Owen · What happens: be, reply, say, talk · To what, where: pity, more · 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 pity | punct |
| 2 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 pity | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 pity | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 pity | det |
| 5 | pity | pity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 replied | ccomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 pity | punct |
| 7 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 replied | punct |
| 8 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | Owen | Owen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 replied | nsubj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 said | cc |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 said | nsubj |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 replied | conj |
| 14 | no | no | ADV | _ | 15 more | advmod |
| 15 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 13 said | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 weak | punct |
| 17 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 21 weak | mark |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 weak | nsubj |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 weak | cop |
| 20 | too | too | ADV | _ | 21 weak | advmod |
| 21 | weak | weak | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 said | parataxis |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 talk | mark |
| 23 | talk | talk | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 weak | advcl |
| 24 | much | much | ADV | _ | 23 talk | advmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | That | a pity | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | past | Owen | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | Owen | more | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent more=Topic | ||||
| 4 | is | past | Owen | weak property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | talk | to-infinitive | Owen not said here | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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