The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 112

The brothers assured him that they had never said so, and they were sure that no such lamp existed, but their words were of no avail.

Who acts: brothers, such lamp, words · What happens: assure, not say, be, exist, word · To what, where: king · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (brothers, such lamp, words), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 brothers	det
2	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 assured	nsubj
3	assured	assure	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 assured	iobj
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 said	mark
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 said	nsubj
7	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 said	aux
8	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	9 said	advmod
9	said	say	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 assured	ccomp
10	so	so	ADV	_	9 said	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 sure	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 sure	cc
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 sure	nsubj
14	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 sure	cop
15	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 assured	parataxis
16	that	that	SCONJ	_	20 existed	mark
17	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	19 lamp	det
18	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 lamp	amod
19	lamp	lamp	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 existed	nsubj
20	existed	exist	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 sure	advcl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 avail	punct
22	but	but	CCONJ	_	28 avail	cc
23	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 words	nmod:poss
24	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 avail	nsubj
25	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 avail	cop
26	of	of	ADP	_	28 avail	case
27	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	28 avail	det
28	avail	avail	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 assured	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 assured	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	other	roles by
1	assure	past	the brothers	king		vn advise-37.9 «NP V NP.recipient that S»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
2	not say speech: assert	past · perfect	brothers = brother			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	is	past	brothers = brother		sure property	tree rules
4	exist	past	no such lamp			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	is	past	brothers's words		of no avail	tree rules
6	word		brothers = brother			nom word «communication 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 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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