The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 129
‘This is mine,’ said the king, though she was so ugly that most men would have turned from her.
Who acts: This, girl, most men · What happens: be, say, turn · To what, where: mine, king · 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 (This, girl, most men), 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 | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 2 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 mine | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 mine | cop |
| 4 | mine | my | PRON | Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 said | ccomp |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 mine | punct |
| 6 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 mine | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 king | det |
| 9 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 ugly | punct |
| 11 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 15 ugly | mark |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 ugly | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 ugly | cop |
| 14 | so | so | ADV | _ | 15 ugly | advmod |
| 15 | ugly | ugly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 said | ccomp |
| 16 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 21 turned | mark |
| 17 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 18 men | amod |
| 18 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 turned | nsubj |
| 19 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 turned | aux |
| 20 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 21 turned | aux |
| 21 | turned | turn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 15 ugly | advcl |
| 22 | from | from | ADP | _ | 23 her | case |
| 23 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 turned | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | This | mine | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the king | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent king=Topic | |||||
| 3 | is | past | girl | ugly property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | turn | would · perfect | most men | from girl | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme from she=Trajectory |
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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