The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 124

‘I’m not at all old,’ said the tree; ‘there are many much older than I am.’

Who acts: I, older, many · What happens: not be, say, be · To what, where: tree · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, older, many), 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	_	3 ’m	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 ’m	nsubj
3	’m	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 said	ccomp
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	3 ’m	advmod
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 all	case
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 ’m	conj
7	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 all	amod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 ’m	punct
9	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 ’m	punct
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 tree	det
12	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 said	obj
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 are	punct
14	‘	'	PUNCT	_	16 are	punct
15	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	16 are	expl
16	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 older	cop
17	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 older	nsubj
18	much	much	ADV	_	19 older	advmod
19	older	old	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	10 said	nsubj
20	than	than	SCONJ	_	22 am	mark
21	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 am	nsubj
22	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 older	advcl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct
24	’	'	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not be	present	I			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	older	the tree		tree rules
3	is	present	many		old 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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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