The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 35, sentence 23
‘I know nothing of making shoes,’ answered Pryderi, who in truth despised so peaceful a craft.
Who acts: I · What happens: know, make, answer, despise · To what, where: nothing, shoes, Pryderi
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 35. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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 | _ | 3 know | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 know | nsubj |
| 3 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 answered | parataxis |
| 4 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 3 know | obj |
| 5 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 6 making | mark |
| 6 | making | make | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 nothing | acl |
| 7 | shoes | shoe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 making | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 know | punct |
| 9 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 know | punct |
| 10 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | Pryderi | Pryderi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 answered | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 despised | punct |
| 13 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 despised | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 truth | case |
| 15 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 who | nmod |
| 16 | despised | despise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 Pryderi | acl:relcl |
| 17 | so | so | ADV | _ | 18 peaceful | advmod |
| 18 | peaceful | peaceful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 despised | xcomp |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 craft | det |
| 20 | craft | craft | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 peaceful | nsubj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | present | I | nothing | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | make | gerund | shoes | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset shoe=Product | |||||
| 3 | answer speech: assert | past | Pryderi | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent pryderi=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | despise | participle · passive | Pryderi | peaceful property | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus |
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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