The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 26
‘No, thank you,’ said Jonas, ‘Walter can keep the skin for himself.
Who acts: Jonas, Walter · What happens: thank, say, keep · To what, where: you, skin · 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, Walter), 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 | _ | 4 thank | punct |
| 2 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 4 thank | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 thank | punct |
| 4 | thank | thank | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 said | ccomp |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 thank | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 thank | punct |
| 7 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 thank | 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 keep | punct |
| 11 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 keep | punct |
| 12 | Walter | Walter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 keep | nsubj |
| 13 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 keep | aux |
| 14 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 said | conj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 skin | det |
| 16 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 keep | obj |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 himself | case |
| 18 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 14 keep | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | thank speech: thank | present | you | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Jonas | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | keep | can | Walter | the skin | for Walter | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent skin=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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