The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 33, sentence 64
‘Then I will go with you,’ said Barbaik, who never trusted anyone and was afraid of being cheated.
Who acts: I, Barbaik · What happens: go, say, not trust, be, cheat · To what, where: anyone · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 33. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, Barbaik), 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 go | punct |
| 2 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 go | advmod |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 go | nsubj |
| 4 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 go | aux |
| 5 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 said | ccomp |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 you | case |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 go | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 go | punct |
| 9 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 go | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | Barbaik | Barbaik | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 said | nsubj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 trusted | punct |
| 13 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 trusted | nsubj |
| 14 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 15 trusted | advmod |
| 15 | trusted | trust | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 Barbaik | acl:relcl |
| 16 | anyone | anyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 15 trusted | obj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 afraid | cc |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 afraid | cop |
| 19 | afraid | afraid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 trusted | conj |
| 20 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 22 cheated | mark |
| 21 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 22 cheated | aux:pass |
| 22 | cheated | cheat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 afraid | xcomp |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | future | I | then | with you | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with you=Beneficiary | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Barbaik | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | not trust | past | Barbaik | anyone | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anyone=Theme | ||||
| 4 | is | past | Barbaik not said here | afraid property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | cheat | gerund · passive | Barbaik not said here | vn cheat-10.6.1 «NP V NP» |
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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