The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 11
‘Now, when I really think over the thing,’ said Jonas, ‘I am almost sure there will not be more than one.
Who acts: I, Jonas · What happens: think, say, be, not be · To what, where: thing, one · 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 (I, 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 | _ | 13 said | punct |
| 2 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 think | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Now | punct |
| 4 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 think | advmod |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 think | nsubj |
| 6 | really | really | ADV | _ | 7 think | advmod |
| 7 | think | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 said | ccomp |
| 8 | over | over | ADP | _ | 10 thing | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 thing | det |
| 10 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 think | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 think | punct |
| 12 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 think | punct |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | Jonas | Jonas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 said | nsubj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 sure | punct |
| 16 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 20 sure | punct |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 sure | nsubj |
| 18 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 sure | cop |
| 19 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 20 sure | advmod |
| 20 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 said | conj |
| 21 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 20 sure | advmod |
| 22 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 one | aux |
| 23 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 27 one | advmod |
| 24 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 27 one | cop |
| 25 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV | 27 one | advmod |
| 26 | than | than | ADP | _ | 25 more | fixed |
| 27 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 20 sure | ccomp |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | present | I | the thing | now | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Jonas | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | is | present | I | there | almost, sure property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | not is a | future | I not said here | one | tree rules |
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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