The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 100

‘Dear Walter, remember that it is only cowards who boast; a really brave man never talks of his bravery.’

Who acts: Dear Walter, bear, cowards, brave man · What happens: remember, be, boast, not talk · To what, where: cowards

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 (Dear Walter, bear, cowards, brave man), 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	_	5 remember	punct
2	Dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 Walter	amod
3	Walter	Walter	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 remember	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 Walter	punct
5	remember	remember	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 cowards	mark
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 cowards	nsubj
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 cowards	cop
9	only	only	ADV	_	10 cowards	advmod
10	cowards	coward	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 remember	obj
11	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 boast	nsubj
12	boast	boast	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 cowards	acl:relcl
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 talks	punct
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 man	det
15	really	really	ADV	_	16 brave	advmod
16	brave	brave	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 man	amod
17	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 talks	nsubj
18	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	19 talks	advmod
19	talks	talk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 remember	conj
20	of	of	ADP	_	22 bravery	case
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 bravery	nmod:poss
22	bravery	bravery	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 talks	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 remember	punct
24	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 remember	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	remember	infinitive	Dear Walter			vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent
2	is a	present	bear	cowards		tree rules
3	boast speech: other	present	cowards			vn complain-37.8 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	not talk	present	a brave man		of man's bravery	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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