The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 52
I’m obliged to you, madam: Off a gold dish or plate, If a king, and I had ‘em, I could dine in great state.
Who acts: I · What happens: oblige, have, dine · To what, where: I, you, em, great state
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 obliged | nsubj |
| 2 | ’m | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 obliged | aux:pass |
| 3 | obliged | oblige | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 you | case |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 obliged | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 madam | punct |
| 7 | madam | madam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 obliged | obl |
| 8 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 12 dish | punct |
| 9 | Off | off | ADP | _ | 12 dish | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 dish | det |
| 11 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 dish | compound |
| 12 | dish | dish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 obliged | parataxis |
| 13 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 14 plate | cc |
| 14 | plate | plate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 dish | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 king | punct |
| 16 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 18 king | mark |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 king | det |
| 18 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 obliged | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 had | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 had | cc |
| 21 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 had | nsubj |
| 22 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 obliged | parataxis |
| 23 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 24 em | punct |
| 24 | em | em | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 had | obj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 dine | punct |
| 26 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 28 dine | nsubj |
| 27 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 dine | aux |
| 28 | dine | dine | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 had | conj |
| 29 | in | in | ADP | _ | 31 state | case |
| 30 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 state | amod |
| 31 | state | state | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 dine | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 obliged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | oblige | present · passive | I | you | madam obl; a king obl | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||
| 2 | have | past | I | em | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent em=Patient | ||||
| 3 | dine | could | I | great state | vn dine-39.5 «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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