The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 35, sentence 82
‘Verily,’ said she, ‘there is no reason I should succour this reptile, except to prevent discredit unto thee.’
Who acts: ‘, reason, I · What happens: say, be, succour, prevent · To what, where: reptile, discredit · 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 (‘, reason, 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 | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 2 | Verily | verily | ADV | _ | 5 said | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Verily | punct |
| 4 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 said | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 is | punct |
| 8 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 is | punct |
| 9 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 10 is | expl |
| 10 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 said | conj |
| 11 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 12 reason | det |
| 12 | reason | reason | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 is | nsubj |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 succour | nsubj |
| 14 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 succour | aux |
| 15 | succour | succour | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 reason | acl:relcl |
| 16 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 17 reptile | det |
| 17 | reptile | reptile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 succour | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 prevent | punct |
| 19 | except | except | ADP | _ | 21 prevent | mark |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 prevent | mark |
| 21 | prevent | prevent | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 succour | conj |
| 22 | discredit | discredit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 prevent | obj |
| 23 | unto | unto | ADP | _ | 24 thee | case |
| 24 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 21 prevent | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 26 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | ‘ | verily property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | be | present | no reason | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | succour | should | I | this reptile | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | prevent | to-infinitive | I not said here | discredit | unto thee | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer discredit=Theme |
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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