The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 82
‘Never shall I find them,’ answered the king, ‘and nothing shall I get for all my trouble.’
Who acts: I, nothing, my · What happens: not find, answer, get, trouble · To what, where: twigs, king · 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 (I, nothing, my), 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 find | punct |
| 2 | Never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 5 find | advmod |
| 3 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 find | aux |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 find | nsubj |
| 5 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 answered | ccomp |
| 6 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 find | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 find | punct |
| 8 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 find | punct |
| 9 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 king | det |
| 11 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 answered | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 answered | punct |
| 13 | ‘ | ‘ | PUNCT | _ | 18 get | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 get | cc |
| 15 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 18 get | nsubj |
| 16 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 get | aux |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 get | nsubj |
| 18 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 answered | ccomp |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 trouble | case |
| 20 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 22 trouble | det:predet |
| 21 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 trouble | nmod:poss |
| 22 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 get | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 get | punct |
| 24 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 18 get | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not find | shall | I | twigs = twig | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Topic | ||||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | past | the king | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | get | shall | nothing | for my trouble | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent for trouble=Source | ||||
| 4 | trouble | my | nom trouble «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
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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