The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 138

‘I’m not at all old’ said the tree.

Who acts: I · What happens: not be, say · 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), 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	9 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	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 tree	det
11	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 said	obj
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not be	present	I						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past		the tree					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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