The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 36, sentence 43
‘You do not belong to this town,’ said he.
Who acts: You, man · What happens: not belong, say · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 36. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, man), 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 belong | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 belong | nsubj |
| 3 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 belong | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 belong | advmod |
| 5 | belong | belong | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 said | ccomp |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 town | case |
| 7 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 town | det |
| 8 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 belong | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 belong | punct |
| 10 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 belong | punct |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 said | nsubj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not belong | present · do-support | You | to this town | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | man | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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