The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 137
‘In Walter’s place I should go quite alone, it is more manly,’ said Jonas.
Who acts: I, more, Jonas · What happens: go, be, say · To what, where: place · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, more, Jonas), 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 | _ | 15 manly | punct |
| 2 | In | in | ADP | _ | 5 place | case |
| 3 | Walter | Walter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 place | nmod:poss |
| 4 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 3 Walter | case |
| 5 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 manly | obl |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 go | nsubj |
| 7 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 go | aux |
| 8 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 place | acl:relcl |
| 9 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 10 alone | advmod |
| 10 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 8 go | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 place | punct |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 manly | nsubj |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 manly | cop |
| 14 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 15 manly | advmod |
| 15 | manly | manly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 said | ccomp |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 manly | punct |
| 17 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 manly | punct |
| 18 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 19 | Jonas | Jonas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 said | nsubj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | should | I | Walter's place not said here | alone property | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location place=Theme | |||
| 2 | is | present | more | Walter's place | manly property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | Jonas | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
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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