The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 36, sentence 44
‘You speak truth,’ they answered, ‘nor you either?’
Who acts: You, people · What happens: speak, answer · To what, where: truth · 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, people), 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 speak | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 speak | nsubj |
| 3 | speak | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 speak | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 answered | punct |
| 6 | ’ | ' | CCONJ | _ | 8 answered | cc |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 answered | nsubj |
| 8 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 speak | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 you | punct |
| 10 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 you | punct |
| 11 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 12 you | cc |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 answered | ccomp |
| 13 | either | either | ADV | PronType=Ind | 8 answered | advmod |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 speak | punct |
| 15 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 speak | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speak speech: other | present | You | truth | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | past | people | either property | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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