The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 5
‘That is nothing to grieve about,’ she said when the tale was finished.
Who acts: That, sorrow · What happens: be, grieve, say, finish · To what, where: nothing, tale · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (That, sorrow), 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 nothing | punct |
| 2 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 nothing | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 nothing | cop |
| 4 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 11 said | ccomp |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 grieve | mark |
| 6 | grieve | grieve | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 nothing | acl |
| 7 | about | about | ADV | _ | 6 grieve | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 nothing | punct |
| 9 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 nothing | punct |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 said | nsubj |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 16 finished | advmod |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 tale | det |
| 14 | tale | tale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 finished | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 finished | aux:pass |
| 16 | finished | finish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 said | ccomp |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | That | nothing | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | grieve | to-infinitive | sorrow not said here | about property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | sorrow | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | finish | past · passive | the tale | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: subject=Eventuality |
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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