The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 64
‘O kings!’ she said, turning towards them, ‘if one of you were killed to-day, the rest would fly; but this man put his trust in me, and had his head cut off three times.
Who acts: kings, rest, man, head · What happens: say, turn, kill, fly, put, have · To what, where: one, trust · 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 (kings, rest, man, head), 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 kings | punct |
| 2 | O | o | INTJ | _ | 3 kings | discourse |
| 3 | kings | king | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 said | nsubj |
| 4 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 kings | punct |
| 5 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 kings | punct |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 said | nsubj |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 turning | punct |
| 9 | turning | turn | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 said | advcl |
| 10 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 11 them | case |
| 11 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 turning | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 killed | punct |
| 13 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 19 killed | punct |
| 14 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 19 killed | mark |
| 15 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 19 killed | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 you | case |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 one | nmod |
| 18 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 killed | aux:pass |
| 19 | killed | kill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 said | conj |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 day | case |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 to | punct |
| 22 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 killed | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 fly | punct |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 rest | det |
| 25 | rest | rest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 fly | nsubj |
| 26 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 fly | aux |
| 27 | fly | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 killed | advcl |
| 28 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 32 put | punct |
| 29 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 32 put | cc |
| 30 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 31 man | det |
| 31 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 put | nsubj |
| 32 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 said | parataxis |
| 33 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 trust | nmod:poss |
| 34 | trust | trust | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 put | obj |
| 35 | in | in | ADP | _ | 36 me | case |
| 36 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 32 put | obl |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 had | punct |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 had | cc |
| 39 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 put | conj |
| 40 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 41 head | nmod:poss |
| 41 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 cut | nsubj |
| 42 | cut | cut | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 39 had | ccomp |
| 43 | off | off | ADP | _ | 42 cut | compound:prt |
| 44 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 45 times | nummod |
| 45 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 42 cut | obl:unmarked |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | kings | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | turn | gerund | kings not said here | towards princes = prince | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme towards they=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | kill a condition, not said to happen | past · passive | one of you | day | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 4 | fly | would | the rest | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | put | past | this man | man's trust | in me | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent trust=Theme in i=Destination | |||
| 6 | have | past | this man not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 7 | cut off | past | man's head | time | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 8 | trust | man | nom trust «possession intransitive»: 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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