The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 7

‘I certainly think that there will not be more than two,’ said Jonas, ‘there are never more than two when they slay children and rams; Walter can very well shake them without me.’

Who acts: I, two, Jonas, they, Walter · What happens: think, be, say, slay, shake · To what, where: children · 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, two, Jonas, they), 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 think	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 think	nsubj
3	certainly	certainly	ADV	_	4 think	advmod
4	think	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 said	ccomp
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 be	mark
6	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	9 be	expl
7	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 be	aux
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 be	advmod
9	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	10 more	cop
10	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 think	obj
11	than	than	ADP	_	10 more	fixed
12	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 more	nsubj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 think	punct
14	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 think	punct
15	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	Jonas	Jonas	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 said	nsubj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 are	punct
18	‘	'	PUNCT	_	20 are	punct
19	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	20 are	expl
20	are	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 said	conj
21	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	22 more	advmod
22	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV	24 two	advmod
23	than	than	ADP	_	22 more	fixed
24	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	20 are	nsubj
25	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	27 slay	advmod
26	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 slay	nsubj
27	slay	slay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 are	advcl
28	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 slay	obj
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 rams	cc
30	rams	ram	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 children	conj
31	;	;	PUNCT	_	36 shake	punct
32	Walter	Walter	PROPN	Number=Sing	36 shake	nsubj
33	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	36 shake	aux
34	very	very	ADV	_	35 well	advmod
35	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	36 shake	advmod
36	shake	shake	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 said	parataxis
37	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 shake	obj
38	without	without	ADP	_	39 me	case
39	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	36 shake	obl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	36 shake	punct
41	’	'	PUNCT	_	36 shake	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	present	I			certainly property	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	infinitive	two			more property	tree rules
3	say speech: assert	past	Jonas				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	be	present	two		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	slay	present	they	children and rams			vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Patient
6	shake	can	Walter	children = child		without me; well property	vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent they=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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