The Blue Fairy Book, The Tale of a Youth Who Set Out to Learn What Fear Was, sentence 141
“No such luck,” said he; “I made myself merry.
Who acts: such luck · What happens: say, make · To what, where: such luck · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Tale of a Youth Who Set Out to Learn What Fear Was. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (such luck), 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 | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 2 | No | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 4 luck | det |
| 3 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 luck | amod |
| 4 | luck | luck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 luck | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 luck | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 said | nsubj |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 made | punct |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 made | punct |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 made | nsubj |
| 12 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 said | conj |
| 13 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 12 made | obj |
| 14 | merry | merry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 made | xcomp |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | no such luck | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | make in a quote | past | no such luck = luck | no such luck = luck | merry property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent myself=Product |
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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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