The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 21
It is true that Prince Ricardo did kill the Yellow Dwarf; but that was in fair fight, sword in hand, and the dwarf, peace to his ashes! died in harness.
Who acts: cruelty, Ricardo, that, dwarf peace · What happens: be, kill, die · To what, where: Yellow Dwarf, fair fight
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cruelty, Ricardo, that, dwarf peace), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 true | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 true | cop |
| 3 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 kill | mark |
| 5 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Ricardo | nmod:desc |
| 6 | Ricardo | Ricardo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 kill | nsubj |
| 7 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 kill | aux |
| 8 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 true | advcl |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Dwarf | det |
| 10 | Yellow | yellow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 Dwarf | amod |
| 11 | Dwarf | Dwarf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 kill | obj |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 fight | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 fight | cc |
| 14 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 18 fight | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 fight | cop |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 fight | case |
| 17 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 fight | amod |
| 18 | fight | fight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 true | parataxis |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 sword | punct |
| 20 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 fight | conj |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 hand | case |
| 22 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 sword | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 died | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 died | cc |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 peace | det |
| 26 | dwarf | dwarf | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 peace | amod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 dwarf | punct |
| 28 | peace | peace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 died | nsubj |
| 29 | to | to | ADP | _ | 31 ashes | case |
| 30 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 ashes | nmod:poss |
| 31 | ashes | ash | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 peace | nmod |
| 32 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 28 peace | punct |
| 33 | died | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 true | conj |
| 34 | in | in | ADP | _ | 35 harness | case |
| 35 | harness | harness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 died | obl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 true | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | cruelty | true property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | kill | past · do-support | Ricardo Prince | the Yellow Dwarf | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dwarf=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is | past | that | fair fight and sword in hand | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | die | past | the dwarf peace to peace's ashes | in harness | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in harness=Attribute |
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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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