The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 8
‘I know what you are seeking; enter in and rest and eat, and to-morrow I will give you what help I can, and send you on your way.’
Who acts: I, you · What happens: know, seek, enter, rest, eat, give · To what, where: you, way · 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 (I, you), 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 know | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 know | nsubj |
| 3 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 7 seeking | obj |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 seeking | nsubj |
| 6 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 seeking | aux |
| 7 | seeking | seek | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 know | ccomp |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 9 enter | punct |
| 9 | enter | enter | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 know | parataxis |
| 10 | in | in | ADV | _ | 9 enter | advmod |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 rest | cc |
| 12 | rest | rest | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 9 enter | conj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 eat | cc |
| 14 | eat | eat | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 12 rest | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 give | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 give | cc |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 morrow | case |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 to | punct |
| 19 | morrow | morrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 give | obl |
| 20 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 give | nsubj |
| 21 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 give | aux |
| 22 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 know | parataxis |
| 23 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 22 give | iobj |
| 24 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 25 help | nsubj |
| 25 | help | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 give | parataxis |
| 26 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 27 can | nsubj |
| 27 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 help | advcl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 send | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 send | cc |
| 30 | send | send | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 help | advcl |
| 31 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 30 send | iobj |
| 32 | on | on | ADP | _ | 34 way | case |
| 33 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 way | nmod:poss |
| 34 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 send | obl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 know | punct |
| 36 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | present | I | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | seek | present · progressive | you | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme | |||||
| 3 | enter | infinitive | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | rest | infinitive | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 5 | eat | infinitive | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 6 | give | future | I | you | to morrow | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Theme to morrow=Recipient | |||
| 7 | help | present | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 8 | send | infinitive | you | your way | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=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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