The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 1

‘Now, my darling,’ says he, when they were left by themselves, ‘you must know that I am under enchantment.

Who acts: darling, themselves, you, I · What happens: say, leave, know, be · To what, where: he, they, enchantment · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (darling, themselves, you, 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	_	8 says	punct
2	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 says	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Now	punct
4	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 darling	nmod:poss
5	darling	darling	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 says	nsubj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 darling	punct
7	’	'	PUNCT	_	8 says	punct
8	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 says	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 left	punct
11	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	14 left	advmod
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 left	nsubj
13	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 left	aux:pass
14	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 says	conj
15	by	by	ADP	_	16 themselves	case
16	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	14 left	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 know	punct
18	‘	'	PUNCT	_	21 know	punct
19	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	21 know	nsubj
20	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 know	aux
21	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 left	conj
22	that	that	SCONJ	_	26 enchantment	mark
23	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 enchantment	nsubj
24	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 enchantment	cop
25	under	under	ADP	_	26 enchantment	case
26	enchantment	enchantment	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 know	ccomp
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 says	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	my darling	he		now	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent he=Topic
2	leave	past · passive	themselves = they	they			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme
3	know	must	you				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	is	present	I		enchantment		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 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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