The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 1
‘No, it is better for you to come too,’ said Walter.
Who acts: you, Walter · What happens: be, come, say · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, Walter), 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 better | punct |
| 2 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 6 better | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 better | punct |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 better | expl |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 better | cop |
| 6 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 7 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 10 come | mark |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 come | nsubj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 come | mark |
| 10 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 said | parataxis |
| 11 | too | too | ADV | _ | 10 come | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 come | punct |
| 13 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 come | punct |
| 14 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 better | conj |
| 15 | Walter | Walter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 said | nsubj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 better | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | good property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | come | to-infinitive | you | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | Walter | 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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