The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 84

Of course he didn’t mean a little thing like this!

Who acts: king · What happens: not mean · To what, where: little thing

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 (king), 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	Of	of	ADP	_	3 he	case
2	course	course	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Of	fixed
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 mean	nsubj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 mean	aux
5	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 mean	advmod
6	mean	mean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 thing	det
8	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 thing	amod
9	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 mean	obj
10	like	like	ADP	_	11 this	case
11	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	9 thing	nmod
12	!	!	PUNCT	_	6 mean	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not mean	past · do-support	king	a little thing				like this	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Topic

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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