The Violet Fairy Book, How a Fish Swam in the Air and a Hare in the Water., sentence 103

I’m speaking the bare truth.’

Who acts: I · What happens: be, speak · To what, where: bare truth · Speech: someone speaks here

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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 ’m	nsubj
2	’m	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	speaking	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 ’m	xcomp
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 truth	det
5	bare	bare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 truth	amod
6	truth	truth	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 speaking	obj
7	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 ’m	punct
8	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 ’m	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	present	I						tree rules
2	speak speech: other	gerund	I not said here	the bare 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 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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