Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Boy With the Deformed Head., sentence 69
“No, Father Gryphon, I never have,” she replied; “but it seems to be both brave and well-intentioned.
Who acts: mother, it · What happens: not have, reply, seem, be, intention · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Story of the Boy With the Deformed Head.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mother, it), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 replied | punct |
| 2 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 5 Gryphon | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 No | punct |
| 4 | Father | Father | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Gryphon | compound |
| 5 | Gryphon | Gryphon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 have | vocative |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 Gryphon | punct |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 have | nsubj |
| 8 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 9 have | advmod |
| 9 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 replied | ccomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 have | punct |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 have | punct |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 replied | nsubj |
| 13 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 seems | punct |
| 15 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 seems | punct |
| 16 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 seems | cc |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 seems | nsubj |
| 18 | seems | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 replied | conj |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 brave | mark |
| 20 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 22 brave | cop |
| 21 | both | both | CCONJ | _ | 22 brave | cc:preconj |
| 22 | brave | brave | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 seems | xcomp |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 intentioned | cc |
| 24 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 26 intentioned | advmod |
| 25 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 24 well | punct |
| 26 | intentioned | intention | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 brave | conj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not have in a quote | present | mother | Father Gryphon vocative | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | past | mother | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | seem in a quote | present | it | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | is in a quote | to-infinitive | brave property | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | intention in a quote | participle | well 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: «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, Project Gutenberg book 75000 (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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