The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 42

Matters were in this state when one day the shark said: ‘I really hardly know how to thank you for all your kindness to me during these weeks.

Who acts: Matters, shark, I · What happens: be, say, know, thank · To what, where: state, you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Matters, shark, 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	Matters	matter	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 state	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 state	cop
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 state	case
4	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 state	det
5	state	state	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	11 said	advmod
7	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 day	nummod
8	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 said	obl:unmarked
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 shark	det
10	shark	shark	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 said	nsubj
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 state	advcl
12	:	:	PUNCT	_	17 know	punct
13	‘	'	PUNCT	_	17 know	punct
14	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 know	nsubj
15	really	really	ADV	_	17 know	advmod
16	hardly	hardly	ADV	_	17 know	advmod
17	know	know	VERB	Mood=Sub Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 said	ccomp
18	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	20 thank	advmod
19	to	to	PART	_	20 thank	mark
20	thank	thank	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 know	ccomp
21	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	20 thank	obj
22	for	for	ADP	_	25 kindness	case
23	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	25 kindness	det:predet
24	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 kindness	nmod:poss
25	kindness	kindness	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 thank	obl
26	to	to	ADP	_	27 me	case
27	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 kindness	nmod
28	during	during	ADP	_	30 weeks	case
29	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	30 weeks	det
30	weeks	week	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 thank	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 state	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Matters		this state			tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	the shark			day		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	know	infinitive	I				hardly property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	thank speech: thank	to-infinitive		you		week	for your kindness to me	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent you=Theme for kindness=Attribute

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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