The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 39, sentence 73
‘Verily, then, I may enter,’ said Kai, ‘for there is no better burnisher of swords than I.’
Who acts: I, Kai · What happens: enter, say, be · To what, where: better burnisher · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 39. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, Kai), 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 | _ | 8 enter | punct |
| 2 | Verily | verily | ADV | _ | 4 then | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Verily | punct |
| 4 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 enter | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 then | punct |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 enter | nsubj |
| 7 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 enter | aux |
| 8 | enter | enter | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 said | ccomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 enter | punct |
| 10 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 enter | punct |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | Kai | Kai | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 said | nsubj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 burnisher | punct |
| 14 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 20 burnisher | punct |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 is | case |
| 16 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 17 is | expl |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 burnisher | cop |
| 18 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 20 burnisher | det |
| 19 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 20 burnisher | amod |
| 20 | burnisher | burnisher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 said | ccomp |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 swords | case |
| 22 | swords | sword | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 burnisher | nmod |
| 23 | than | than | ADP | _ | 24 I. | case |
| 24 | I. | i. | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 burnisher | nmod |
| 25 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | enter | may | I | then | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Kai | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | is a | present | no better burnisher | of swords; than I. | 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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