The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 118
‘Each o’ them fell to without leave, and only gave me the rough words when I told them they were making more free than welcome.
Who acts: princes, I · What happens: fall, give, tell, make · To what, where: o, rough words, me, princes · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (princes, 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 o | punct |
| 2 | Each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 o | det |
| 3 | o | o | NOUN | _ | 6 fell | obl |
| 4 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 o | punct |
| 5 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 fell | nsubj |
| 6 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 fell | xcomp |
| 8 | without | without | ADP | _ | 9 leave | case |
| 9 | leave | leave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 fell | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 gave | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 gave | cc |
| 12 | only | only | ADV | _ | 13 gave | advmod |
| 13 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 fell | conj |
| 14 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 gave | iobj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 words | det |
| 16 | rough | rough | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 words | amod |
| 17 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 gave | obj |
| 18 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 20 told | advmod |
| 19 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 told | nsubj |
| 20 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 gave | advcl |
| 21 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 told | iobj |
| 22 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 making | nsubj |
| 23 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 making | aux |
| 24 | making | make | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 20 told | ccomp |
| 25 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 26 free | amod |
| 26 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 making | xcomp |
| 27 | than | than | ADP | _ | 28 welcome | case |
| 28 | welcome | welcome | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 free | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 fell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall | past | princes = prince | each o | without leave | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | give | past | princes = prince not said here | the rough words | me | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient word=Theme | |||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | past | I | princes = prince | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | make | past · progressive | princes = prince | free property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
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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