The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 72
‘Well, I don’t know,’ he remarked carelessly, ‘it is such a long way; but you may be right.’
Who acts: I, heart, course, you · What happens: not know, remark, be · To what, where: long way
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 (I, heart, course, you), 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 know | punct |
| 2 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 7 know | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Well | punct |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 know | nsubj |
| 5 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 know | aux |
| 6 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 know | advmod |
| 7 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 remarked | parataxis |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 know | punct |
| 9 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 know | punct |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 remarked | nsubj |
| 11 | remarked | remark | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | carelessly | carelessly | ADV | _ | 11 remarked | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 way | punct |
| 14 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 20 way | punct |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 way | nsubj |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 way | cop |
| 17 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 20 way | det:predet |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 way | det |
| 19 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 way | amod |
| 20 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 remarked | obl |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 right | punct |
| 22 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 26 right | cc |
| 23 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 26 right | nsubj |
| 24 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 right | aux |
| 25 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 26 right | cop |
| 26 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 remarked | parataxis |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 26 right | punct |
| 28 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 26 right | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not know | present · do-support | I | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | remark speech: assert | past | heart | carelessly property | vn lecture-37.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | is a | present | course | such long way | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | is | may | you | right property | 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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