The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 123

‘Oh dear, what nonsense!’ exclaimed the elder; ‘and, besides, what proof have we that you are speaking the truth?’

Who acts: proof, you · What happens: nonsense, exclaim, have, speak · To what, where: elder, we, truth · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (proof, you), 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 dear	punct
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	3 dear	discourse
3	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 nonsense	punct
5	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 nonsense	nsubj
6	nonsense	nonsense	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 dear	conj
7	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 dear	punct
8	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 dear	punct
9	exclaimed	exclaim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 dear	conj
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 elder	det
11	elder	elder	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 exclaimed	obj
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 what	punct
13	‘	‘	SYM	Number=Sing	18 what	nsubj
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 what	cc
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 besides	punct
16	besides	besides	INTJ	_	18 what	discourse
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 besides	punct
18	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 dear	conj
19	proof	proof	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 have	nsubj
20	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 what	acl:relcl
21	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 have	obj
22	that	that	SCONJ	_	25 speaking	mark
23	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	25 speaking	nsubj
24	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 speaking	aux
25	speaking	speak	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	20 have	advcl
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 truth	det
27	truth	truth	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 speaking	obj
28	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 dear	punct
29	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 dear	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	nonsense				tree rules
2	exclaim speech: express	past		the elder	vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent elder=Topic
3	have	present	proof	we	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Patient
4	speak speech: other	present · progressive	you	the truth	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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