The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 37, sentence 52

To be sure, Jegu only replied roughly that he didn’t know what she was talking about, but this answer made her feel all the more certain that it was he and nobody else.

Who acts: Jegu, dance, answer · What happens: be, reply, not know, talk about, make, feel · To what, where: dance, Jegu · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 37. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Jegu, dance, answer), 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	To	to	PART	_	3 sure	mark
2	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	3 sure	cop
3	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 replied	punct
5	Jegu	Jegu	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 replied	nsubj
6	only	only	ADV	_	7 replied	advmod
7	replied	reply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sure	parataxis
8	roughly	roughly	ADV	_	7 replied	advmod
9	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 know	mark
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 know	nsubj
11	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 know	aux
12	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 know	advmod
13	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 replied	advcl
14	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 talking	obl
15	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 talking	nsubj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 talking	aux
17	talking	talk	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 know	ccomp
18	about	about	ADP	_	17 talking	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 made	punct
20	but	but	CCONJ	_	23 made	cc
21	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	22 answer	det
22	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 made	nsubj
23	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sure	conj
24	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 made	obj
25	feel	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 made	xcomp
26	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	29 certain	det:predet
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 certain	det
28	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	29 certain	advmod
29	certain	certain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 feel	xcomp
30	that	that	SCONJ	_	33 he	mark
31	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 he	nsubj
32	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 he	cop
33	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 certain	nsubj
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 nobody	cc
35	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	33 he	conj
36	else	else	ADV	_	35 nobody	advmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 sure	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	to-infinitive			sure property	tree rules
2	reply speech: assert	past	Jegu		roughly property	vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	not know	past · do-support	Jegu			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	talk about	past · progressive	dance			vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	make	past	this answer	dance		tree rules
6	feel	infinitive	dance not said here		certain property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
7	is a	past	answer	Jegu		tree rules

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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