The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 30
‘You are a stranger here, that is plain,’ said the weaver, ‘but come in, and I will give you food and drink.’
Who acts: You, stranger, weaver, I · What happens: be, say, come in, give · To what, where: stranger, food, you · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, stranger, weaver, 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 | _ | 10 plain | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 stranger | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 stranger | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 stranger | det |
| 5 | stranger | stranger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 plain | nsubj |
| 6 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 stranger | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 plain | punct |
| 8 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 plain | nsubj |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 plain | cop |
| 10 | plain | plain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 plain | punct |
| 12 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 plain | punct |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 plain | conj |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 weaver | det |
| 15 | weaver | weaver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 said | nsubj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
| 17 | ‘ | ‘ | PUNCT | _ | 19 come | punct |
| 18 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 come | cc |
| 19 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 plain | parataxis |
| 20 | in | in | ADV | _ | 19 come | advmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 give | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 give | cc |
| 23 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 give | nsubj |
| 24 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 give | aux |
| 25 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 come | conj |
| 26 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 25 give | iobj |
| 27 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 give | obj |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 drink | cc |
| 29 | drink | drink | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 food | conj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 plain | punct |
| 31 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 plain | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | You | a stranger | here | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is | present | a stranger | plain property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the weaver | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | come in | infinitive | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 5 | give | future | I | food and drink | you | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient food=Theme |
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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