The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 105

‘Well, I perceive nothing, certainly,’ answered he, ‘but it is very odd.

Who acts: I, giant, stranger · What happens: perceive, answer, be · To what, where: nothing

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, giant, stranger), 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 perceive	punct
2	Well	well	INTJ	_	5 perceive	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Well	punct
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 perceive	nsubj
5	perceive	perceive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 answered	parataxis
6	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	5 perceive	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 perceive	punct
8	certainly	certainly	ADV	_	5 perceive	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 perceive	punct
10	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 perceive	punct
11	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 answered	nsubj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 he	punct
14	‘	'	PUNCT	_	12 he	punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 odd	cc
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 odd	nsubj
17	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 odd	cop
18	very	very	ADV	_	19 odd	advmod
19	odd	odd	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 answered	conj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	perceive	present	I	nothing	certainly property	vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus
2	answer speech: assert	past	giant			vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is	present	stranger		odd property	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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