The Violet Fairy Book, How a Fish Swam in the Air and a Hare in the Water., sentence 60
After all, people must have said the truth----’
What happens: say · To what, where: people · 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: 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 2 all | case |
| 2 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 people | det |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 all | punct |
| 4 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 said | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 said | aux |
| 6 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 said | aux |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 truth | det |
| 9 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | obj |
| 10 | ---- | ---- | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 11 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | must · perfect · passive | all people | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Theme truth=Manner |
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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