The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 16
‘Well, just listen,’ said Jonas, ‘I am beginning to think that Walter is not so brave as people say.
Who acts: Jonas, I, Walter, people · What happens: listen, say, begin, think, not be · 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 (Jonas, I, Walter, people), 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 listen | punct |
| 2 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 5 listen | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Well | punct |
| 4 | just | just | ADV | _ | 5 listen | advmod |
| 5 | listen | listen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 said | ccomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 listen | punct |
| 7 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 listen | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | Jonas | Jonas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 said | nsubj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 beginning | punct |
| 11 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 beginning | punct |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 beginning | nsubj |
| 13 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 beginning | aux |
| 14 | beginning | begin | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 said | advcl |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 think | mark |
| 16 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 beginning | xcomp |
| 17 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 22 brave | mark |
| 18 | Walter | Walter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 brave | nsubj |
| 19 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 brave | cop |
| 20 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 22 brave | advmod |
| 21 | so | so | ADV | _ | 22 brave | advmod |
| 22 | brave | brave | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 think | ccomp |
| 23 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 25 say | mark |
| 24 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 say | nsubj |
| 25 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 brave | advcl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | listen | infinitive | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Jonas | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | begin | present · progressive | I | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | think speech: other | to-infinitive | I not said here | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | not is | present | Walter | brave property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | say speech: assert | present | people | 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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