The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 58

‘Father, this is no robber or murderer, but the victor in the three races, and he loosed the spells that were laid upon me.’

Who acts: Father · What happens: be, loose, lay · To what, where: robber, spells

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 (Father), 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 Father	punct
2	Father	Father	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 robber	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Father	punct
4	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 robber	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 robber	cop
6	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	7 robber	det
7	robber	robber	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	or	or	CCONJ	_	9 murderer	cc
9	murderer	murderer	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 robber	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 victor	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 victor	cc
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 victor	det
13	victor	victor	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 robber	conj
14	in	in	ADP	_	17 races	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 races	det
16	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 races	nummod
17	races	race	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 victor	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 loosed	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 loosed	cc
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 loosed	nsubj
21	loosed	loose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 robber	conj
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 spells	det
23	spells	spell	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 loosed	obj
24	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 laid	nsubj:pass
25	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 laid	aux:pass
26	laid	lay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 spells	acl:relcl
27	upon	upon	ADP	_	28 me	case
28	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 laid	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	21 loosed	punct
30	’	'	PUNCT	_	7 robber	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Father	no robber or murderer but the victor in the three races		tree rules
2	loose	past	father	the spells		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent spell=Patient
3	lay	past · passive		the spells	upon me	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme upon i=Destination

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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