The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 97
‘Very well,’ said the shark sulkily, ‘if you won’t come, I suppose I may as well listen to that as do nothing.’
Who acts: you, I, as · What happens: say, not come, suppose, listen, do · To what, where: shark, nothing · 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 (you, I, as), 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 | _ | 6 said | punct |
| 2 | Very | very | ADV | _ | 3 well | advmod |
| 3 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 said | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 well | punct |
| 5 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 shark | det |
| 8 | shark | shark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 said | obj |
| 9 | sulkily | sulkily | ADV | _ | 6 said | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 come | punct |
| 11 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 16 come | punct |
| 12 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 16 come | mark |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 come | nsubj |
| 14 | wo | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 come | aux |
| 15 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 come | advmod |
| 16 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 said | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 suppose | punct |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 suppose | nsubj |
| 19 | suppose | suppose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 said | ccomp |
| 20 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 listen | nsubj |
| 21 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 listen | aux |
| 22 | as | as | ADV | ExtPos=CCONJ | 24 listen | cc |
| 23 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 22 as | fixed |
| 24 | listen | listen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 suppose | ccomp |
| 25 | to | to | SCONJ | _ | 28 do | mark |
| 26 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 27 as | det |
| 27 | as | a | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 do | nsubj |
| 28 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 listen | advcl |
| 29 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 28 do | obj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
| 31 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the shark | sulkily, well property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not come a condition, not said to happen | future | you | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | suppose | present | I | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | listen | may | I | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | do | present | that as | nothing | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=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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