The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 36, sentence 47
‘The men of the town are so silly that we can make them believe anything we please,’ said they.
Who acts: men, we, sobs · What happens: be, make, believe, say · To what, where: sobs, anything · 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 (men, we, sobs), 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 | _ | 9 silly | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 men | det |
| 3 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 silly | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 town | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 town | det |
| 6 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 men | nmod |
| 7 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 silly | cop |
| 8 | so | so | ADV | _ | 9 silly | advmod |
| 9 | silly | silly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 said | ccomp |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 make | mark |
| 11 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 make | nsubj |
| 12 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 make | aux |
| 13 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 silly | advcl |
| 14 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 make | obj |
| 15 | believe | believe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 make | xcomp |
| 16 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 15 believe | obj |
| 17 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 please | nsubj |
| 18 | please | please | INTJ | _ | 16 anything | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 silly | punct |
| 20 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 silly | punct |
| 21 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 22 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 said | nsubj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 21 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the men of the town | silly property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | make | can | we | sobs = sob | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | believe | infinitive | sobs = sob not said here | anything | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer anything=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | sobs = sob | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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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