The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 50

‘Fie!’ said his conscience, ‘Do you not remember that a lie is one of the worst sins, both in the sight of God and man?

Who acts: Fie, you, lie · What happens: say, not remember, be, sight · To what, where: conscience, one, God · 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 (Fie, you, lie), 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	_	2 Fie	punct
2	Fie	Fie	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 said	nsubj
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Fie	punct
4	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Fie	punct
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 conscience	nmod:poss
7	conscience	conscience	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 remember	punct
9	‘	'	PUNCT	_	13 remember	punct
10	Do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 remember	aux
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 remember	nsubj
12	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 remember	advmod
13	remember	remember	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 said	parataxis
14	that	that	SCONJ	_	18 one	mark
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 lie	det
16	lie	lie	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 one	nsubj
17	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 one	cop
18	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 remember	ccomp
19	of	of	ADP	_	22 sins	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 sins	det
21	worst	bad	ADJ	Degree=Sup	22 sins	amod
22	sins	sin	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 one	nmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 sight	punct
24	both	both	CCONJ	_	27 sight	cc:preconj
25	in	in	ADP	_	27 sight	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 sight	det
27	sight	sight	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 one	appos
28	of	of	ADP	_	29 God	case
29	God	God	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 sight	nmod
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 man	cc
31	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 God	conj
32	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Fie	Fie's conscience		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent conscience=Topic
2	not remember	present · do-support	you			vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent
3	is a	present	a lie	one	of the worst sins	tree rules
4	sight			God and man		nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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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