The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 58
‘Poor man, I am very sorry for him,’ replied the monkey; ‘but you were unwise not to tell me till we had started.’
Who acts: Poor man, you, we · What happens: be, reply, not tell, start · To what, where: monkey, me · 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 (Poor man, you, we), 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 | _ | 3 man | punct |
| 2 | Poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 man | amod |
| 3 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sorry | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 man | punct |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 sorry | nsubj |
| 6 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 sorry | cop |
| 7 | very | very | ADV | _ | 8 sorry | advmod |
| 8 | sorry | sorry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 him | case |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 sorry | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 replied | punct |
| 12 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 replied | punct |
| 13 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 sorry | conj |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 monkey | det |
| 15 | monkey | monkey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 replied | obj |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 unwise | punct |
| 17 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 21 unwise | punct |
| 18 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 21 unwise | cc |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 21 unwise | nsubj |
| 20 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 unwise | cop |
| 21 | unwise | unwise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 sorry | conj |
| 22 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 24 tell | advmod |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 tell | mark |
| 24 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 unwise | parataxis |
| 25 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 tell | iobj |
| 26 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 29 started | mark |
| 27 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 29 started | nsubj |
| 28 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 started | aux |
| 29 | started | start | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 24 tell | advcl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 21 unwise | punct |
| 31 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 21 unwise | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Poor man | for friend; sorry property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | past | Poor man not said here | the monkey | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent monkey=Topic | ||||
| 3 | is | past | you | unwise property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | not tell speech: assert | to-infinitive | me | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient | |||||
| 5 | start | past · perfect | we | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=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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