The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 20

‘That’s a lie,’ said Walter, ‘I am not at all frightened, but it is more amusing when there are two.

Who acts: That, lie, two · What happens: be, say, frighten · To what, where: lie · 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 (That, lie, two), 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 lie	punct
2	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 lie	nsubj
3	’s	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 lie	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 lie	det
5	lie	lie	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 said	nsubj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 lie	punct
7	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 lie	punct
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	Walter	Walter	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 said	nsubj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 ‘	punct
11	‘	'	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 all	nsubj
13	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 all	cop
14	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 all	advmod
15	at	at	ADP	_	16 all	case
16	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	11 ‘	obj
17	frightened	frighten	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 all	acl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 amusing	punct
19	but	but	CCONJ	_	23 amusing	cc
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 amusing	nsubj
21	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 amusing	cop
22	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	23 amusing	advmod
23	amusing	amusing	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 frightened	conj
24	when	when	SCONJ	_	26 are	mark
25	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	26 are	expl
26	are	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 amusing	advcl
27	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	26 are	nsubj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	present	That	a lie			tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	a lie				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	frighten	participle					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
4	is	present	lie			amusing property	tree rules
5	be	present	two		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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