The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 33
‘There is to be a horse-race in the town to-day,’ remarked the weaver, ‘and the winner is to have the king’s daughter to wife.’
Who acts: horse race, winner · What happens: be, remark · To what, where: horse race, town, weaver
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 (horse race, winner), 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 is | punct |
| 2 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 is | expl |
| 3 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 race | mark |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 race | cop |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 race | det |
| 7 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 race | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 horse | punct |
| 9 | race | race | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 is | nsubj |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 town | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 town | det |
| 12 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 race | nmod |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 day | case |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 to | punct |
| 15 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 town | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 remarked | punct |
| 17 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 18 remarked | punct |
| 18 | remarked | remark | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 race | conj |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 weaver | det |
| 20 | weaver | weaver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 remarked | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 have | punct |
| 22 | ‘ | ‘ | PUNCT | _ | 28 have | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 have | cc |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 winner | det |
| 25 | winner | winner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 have | nsubj |
| 26 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 have | cop |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 have | mark |
| 28 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 race | parataxis |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 king | det |
| 30 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 31 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 30 king | case |
| 32 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 have | obj |
| 33 | to | to | PART | _ | 34 wife | mark |
| 34 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 daughter | acl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 is | punct |
| 36 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 is | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | present | a horse race | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is a | to-infinitive | a horse race | the town to day | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | remark speech: assert | participle | the weaver | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent weaver=Topic | |||||
| 4 | is | present | the winner | have property | 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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