The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 38, sentence 96
‘It is a pity to hid him thus,’ said Gwrhyr, ‘for well I know that he has done no evil.’
Who acts: chest, pity, Gwrhyr, I · What happens: be, hide, say, know, do · To what, where: pity, youth, evil · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 38. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (chest, pity, Gwrhyr, 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 | _ | 7 hid | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 pity | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 pity | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 pity | det |
| 5 | pity | pity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 hid | nsubj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 pity | fixed |
| 7 | hid | hide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 said | ccomp |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 hid | obj |
| 9 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 7 hid | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 hid | punct |
| 11 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 hid | punct |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | Gwrhyr | Gwrhyr | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 said | nsubj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 know | punct |
| 15 | ‘ | ‘ | CCONJ | _ | 19 know | cc |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 well | case |
| 17 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 19 know | obl |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 know | nsubj |
| 19 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 said | ccomp |
| 20 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 23 done | mark |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 done | nsubj |
| 22 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 done | aux |
| 23 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 19 know | ccomp |
| 24 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 25 evil | det |
| 25 | evil | evil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 done | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
| 27 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | chest | a pity | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | hide | past | a pity | youth | thus property | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient | |||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | Gwrhyr | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | know | present | I | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | do | present · perfect | Gwrhyr | no evil | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent evil=Eventuality |
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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