The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 35, sentence 79
‘It is a marvel, truly,’ said she, ‘yet it would be unseemly for a man of thy dignity to hang a reptile such as this.
Who acts: morrow, marvel · What happens: be, say, hang · To what, where: marvel, reptile · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (morrow, marvel), 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 marvel | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 marvel | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 marvel | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 marvel | det |
| 5 | marvel | marvel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 truly | punct |
| 7 | truly | truly | ADV | _ | 5 marvel | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 marvel | punct |
| 9 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 marvel | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 unseemly | nsubj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 she | punct |
| 13 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 18 unseemly | punct |
| 14 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 18 unseemly | advmod |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 unseemly | nsubj |
| 16 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 unseemly | aux |
| 17 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 18 unseemly | cop |
| 18 | unseemly | unseemly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 said | ccomp |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 21 man | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 man | det |
| 21 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 unseemly | obl |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 dignity | case |
| 23 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 24 dignity | nmod:poss |
| 24 | dignity | dignity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 man | nmod |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 hang | mark |
| 26 | hang | hang | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 unseemly | advcl |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 reptile | det |
| 28 | reptile | reptile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 hang | obj |
| 29 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP | 31 this | case |
| 30 | as | as | ADP | _ | 29 such | fixed |
| 31 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 28 reptile | nmod |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | morrow | a marvel | truly property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | a marvel | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is | would | marvel | yet | for a man of thy dignity; unseemly property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | hang | to-infinitive | marvel not said here | a reptile | such this | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reptile=Patient |
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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