The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 3
‘No, I have not time,’ said Jonas, ‘and besides, there are sure not to be more than three.
Who acts: I, sure · What happens: have, say, beside, be, not be · To what, where: Jonas, three · 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 (I, sure), 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 | _ | 10 said | punct |
| 2 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 5 have | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 No | punct |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 have | nsubj |
| 5 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 said | ccomp |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 time | advmod |
| 7 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 have | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 have | punct |
| 9 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 have | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | Jonas | Jonas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 said | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 Jonas | punct |
| 13 | ‘ | ‘ | PUNCT | _ | 15 besides | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 besides | cc |
| 15 | besides | beside | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 are | advcl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 besides | punct |
| 17 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 18 are | expl |
| 18 | are | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 said | ccomp |
| 19 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 are | nsubj |
| 20 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 25 three | advmod |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 three | mark |
| 22 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 25 three | cop |
| 23 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV | 25 three | advmod |
| 24 | than | than | ADP | _ | 23 more | fixed |
| 25 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 19 sure | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | I | time | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Jonas | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | beside | present | sure not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | be | present | sure | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | not is a | to-infinitive | three | 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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