The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 18

Such a thing must never be; what would people say?

Who acts: thing · What happens: not be

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 (thing), 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	Such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	3 thing	det:predet
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 thing	det
3	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 say	nsubj
4	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 say	aux
5	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	11 say	advmod
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	11 say	cop
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	11 say	punct
8	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	11 say	obj
9	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 say	aux
10	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 say	nsubj
11	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	11 say	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is	would	such thing					say property	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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