The Violet Fairy Book, How a Fish Swam in the Air and a Hare in the Water., sentence 102
‘Indeed, I’m not joking, Mr. Secretary!
Who acts: I · What happens: not joke · To what, where: Secretary
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, How a Fish Swam in the Air and a Hare in the Water.. 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 | _ | 7 joking | punct |
| 2 | Indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 7 joking | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Indeed | punct |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 joking | nsubj |
| 5 | ’m | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 joking | aux |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 joking | advmod |
| 7 | joking | joke | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 joking | punct |
| 9 | Mr. | Mr. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Secretary | nmod:desc |
| 10 | Secretary | Secretary | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 joking | obj |
| 11 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 7 joking | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not joke speech: other | present · progressive | I | Secretary Mr. | indeed 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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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