The Violet Fairy Book, The Finest Liar in the World, sentence 20

So the beardless one began to lie with all his might, and when he was tired of inventing new lies the boy said to him, ‘My good fellow, if THAT is all you can do it is not much!

Who acts: beardless one, boy, inventing, you, good fellow · What happens: begin, lie, be, invent, say, do · To what, where: sonny, cake · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Finest Liar in the World. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (beardless one, boy, inventing, 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	So	so	ADV	_	5 began	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 one	det
3	beardless	beardless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 one	amod
4	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 began	nsubj
5	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 lie	mark
7	lie	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 began	xcomp
8	with	with	SCONJ	_	11 might	mark
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	11 might	det:predet
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 might	nmod:poss
11	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 lie	advcl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 tired	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 tired	cc
14	when	when	SCONJ	_	17 tired	mark
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 tired	nsubj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 tired	cop
17	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 began	parataxis
18	of	of	SCONJ	_	19 inventing	mark
19	inventing	invent	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	21 lies	csubj
20	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 inventing	xcomp
21	lies	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 tired	advcl
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 boy	det
23	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 said	nsubj
24	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 lies	parataxis
25	to	to	ADP	_	26 him	case
26	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 said	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 fellow	punct
28	‘	'	PUNCT	_	31 fellow	punct
29	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 fellow	nmod:poss
30	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 fellow	amod
31	fellow	fellow	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 much	nsubj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 all	punct
33	if	if	SCONJ	_	36 all	mark
34	THAT	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	36 all	nsubj
35	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	36 all	cop
36	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	31 fellow	conj
37	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	39 do	nsubj
38	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	39 do	aux
39	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 all	acl:relcl
40	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 do	obj
41	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	43 much	cop
42	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	43 much	advmod
43	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 said	ccomp
44	!	!	PUNCT	_	5 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	begin	past	the beardless one				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	lie	to-infinitive	the beardless one not said here				vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is	past	boy			tired property	tree rules
4	invent	gerund				new property	vn create-26.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	lie	present	inventing				vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	say speech: assert	past	the boy		sonny		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient
7	do	can	you	cake			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality
8	not is	present	My good fellow			much 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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