The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 32
‘Stay with me, I pray, for I love company and am lonely,’ observed the weaver at last, and he pointed to a bed in a corner, where the fisher’s son threw himself, and slept till dawn.
Who acts: you, I, weaver, son · What happens: stay, pray, love, be, observe, point · To what, where: company, weaver, last
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, I, weaver, son), 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 | _ | 2 Stay | punct |
| 2 | Stay | stay | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | with | with | ADP | _ | 4 me | case |
| 4 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 Stay | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 pray | punct |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 pray | nsubj |
| 7 | pray | pray | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 Stay | advcl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 love | punct |
| 9 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 11 love | mark |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 love | nsubj |
| 11 | love | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 Stay | parataxis |
| 12 | company | company | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 love | obj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 lonely | cc |
| 14 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 lonely | cop |
| 15 | lonely | lonely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 love | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 observed | punct |
| 17 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 18 observed | punct |
| 18 | observed | observe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 love | parataxis |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 weaver | det |
| 20 | weaver | weaver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 observed | obj |
| 21 | at | at | ADP | _ | 22 last | case |
| 22 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 observed | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 pointed | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 pointed | cc |
| 25 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 pointed | nsubj |
| 26 | pointed | point | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 observed | conj |
| 27 | to | to | ADP | _ | 29 bed | case |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 bed | det |
| 29 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 pointed | obl |
| 30 | in | in | ADP | _ | 32 corner | case |
| 31 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 corner | det |
| 32 | corner | corner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 pointed | obl |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 threw | punct |
| 34 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 39 threw | advmod |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 fisher | det |
| 36 | fisher | fisher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 son | nmod:poss |
| 37 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 36 fisher | case |
| 38 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 threw | nsubj |
| 39 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 corner | acl:relcl |
| 40 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 39 threw | obj |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 slept | punct |
| 42 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 slept | cc |
| 43 | slept | sleep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 observed | conj |
| 44 | till | till | ADP | _ | 45 dawn | case |
| 45 | dawn | dawn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 slept | obl |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Stay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stay | imperative | you not said here | with me | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with i=Location | ||||
| 2 | pray | present | I | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 3 | love | present | I | company | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer company=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | is | present | I not said here | lonely property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | observe | past | the weaver | last | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent weaver=Topic | ||||
| 6 | point | past | weaver | to a bed; in a corner | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in corner=Theme | ||||
| 7 | throw | past | the fisher's son | weaver | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Theme | ||||
| 8 | sleep | past | dawn | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=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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