The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 71
‘Oh, nothing; I did not feel inclined to talk, that was all!’
Who acts: I · What happens: not feel, talk
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), 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 | _ | 4 nothing | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 4 nothing | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | root | root |
| 5 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 9 feel | punct |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 feel | nsubj |
| 7 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 feel | aux |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 feel | advmod |
| 9 | feel | feel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 nothing | parataxis |
| 10 | inclined | inclined | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 feel | xcomp |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 talk | mark |
| 12 | talk | talk | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 inclined | xcomp |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 all | punct |
| 14 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 16 all | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 all | cop |
| 16 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 feel | parataxis |
| 17 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 9 feel | punct |
| 18 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 feel | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not feel | past · do-support | I | inclined property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | talk | to-infinitive | I not said here | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: 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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