The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 80
He got up in great glee, and put out his hand and head; and said she, ‘By the virtue of my magic gifts, let a pair of horns spring out of your head, and sing to the lodge.’
Who acts: folk, woman, horns, my · What happens: get up, put out, say, let, spr, sing · To what, where: great glee, hand, pair, head, lodge · 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 (folk, woman, horns, my), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 got | nsubj |
| 2 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | up | up | ADP | _ | 2 got | compound:prt |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 glee | case |
| 5 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 glee | amod |
| 6 | glee | glee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 got | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 put | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 put | cc |
| 9 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 got | conj |
| 10 | out | out | ADP | _ | 9 put | compound:prt |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 hand | nmod:poss |
| 12 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 put | obj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 head | cc |
| 14 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 hand | conj |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 said | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 said | cc |
| 17 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 got | parataxis |
| 18 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 said | nsubj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 let | punct |
| 20 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 29 let | punct |
| 21 | By | by | ADP | _ | 23 virtue | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 virtue | det |
| 23 | virtue | virtue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 let | obl |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 gifts | case |
| 25 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 gifts | nmod:poss |
| 26 | magic | magic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 gifts | compound |
| 27 | gifts | gift | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 virtue | nmod |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 virtue | punct |
| 29 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 said | ccomp |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 pair | det |
| 31 | pair | pair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 let | obj |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 horns | case |
| 33 | horns | horn | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 pair | nmod |
| 34 | spring | spr | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 33 horns | acl |
| 35 | out | out | ADP | _ | 38 head | case |
| 36 | of | of | ADP | _ | 38 head | case |
| 37 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 38 head | nmod:poss |
| 38 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 spring | obl |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 sing | punct |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 sing | cc |
| 41 | sing | sing | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 let | conj |
| 42 | to | to | ADP | _ | 44 lodge | case |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 lodge | det |
| 44 | lodge | lodge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 sing | obl |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 29 let | punct |
| 46 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 29 let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get up | past | folk | great glee | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | put out | participle | folk not said here | folk's hand and head | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent hand=Goal | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | woman | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | let | infinitive | a pair of horns | by the virtue of my magic gifts | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pair=Theme | ||||
| 5 | spr | gerund | horns not said here | your head | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | sing speech: express | infinitive | the lodge | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to lodge=Recipient | |||||
| 7 | gift | my | nom gift «possession transitive»: poss=agent |
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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