The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 15
‘I have brought what you wanted’; and he laid the things he was carrying down on the ground.
Who acts: I, you, Lad · What happens: bring, want, lay, carry down · To what, where: things, ground
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 2. 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, Lad), 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 | _ | 4 brought | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 brought | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 brought | aux |
| 4 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 brought | obj |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 wanted | nsubj |
| 7 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 what | acl:relcl |
| 8 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 wanted | punct |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 laid | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 laid | cc |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 laid | nsubj |
| 12 | laid | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 brought | conj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 things | det |
| 14 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 laid | obj |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 carrying | nsubj |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 carrying | aux |
| 17 | carrying | carry | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 laid | ccomp |
| 18 | down | down | ADV | _ | 17 carrying | advmod |
| 19 | on | on | ADP | _ | 21 ground | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 ground | det |
| 21 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 carrying | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 brought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring | present · perfect | I | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent what=Theme | |||||
| 2 | want | past | you | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 3 | lay | past | Lad | the things | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | carry down | past · progressive | Lad | the ground | down property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: 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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