The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 32, sentence 36

‘Nonsense,’ cried Barbaik, ‘he will never save enough for a farm till he is a hundred.

Who acts: Nonsense · What happens: cry, not save, be · To what, where: hundred

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 32. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Nonsense), 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	_	2 Nonsense	punct
2	Nonsense	nonsense	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cried	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Nonsense	punct
4	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Nonsense	punct
5	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	Barbaik	Barbaik	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 cried	flat
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 save	punct
8	‘	'	PUNCT	_	12 save	punct
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 save	nsubj
10	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 save	aux
11	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	12 save	advmod
12	save	save	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 cried	conj
13	enough	enough	ADV	_	12 save	advmod
14	for	for	ADP	_	16 farm	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 farm	det
16	farm	farm	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 save	obl
17	till	till	SCONJ	_	21 hundred	mark
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 hundred	nsubj
19	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 hundred	cop
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 hundred	det
21	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 save	advcl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	past	Nonsense			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	not save	future	Nonsense		for a farm; enough property	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent for farm=Source
3	is a	present	Nonsense	a hundred		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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