The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 17

‘Yes, it is you who are the clever boy’; and they divided the spoil and the Black Gallows Bird had one half and the Shifty Lad the other half.

Who acts: ground, things, Black Gallows · What happens: be, divide, have · To what, where: you, clever boy, spoil, one half

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 (ground, things, Black Gallows), 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	_	6 you	punct
2	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 you	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Yes	punct
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 you	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 you	cop
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 divided	ccomp
7	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 boy	nsubj
8	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 boy	cop
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 boy	det
10	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 boy	amod
11	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 you	appos
12	’	'	PUNCT	_	11 boy	punct
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 divided	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 divided	cc
15	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 divided	nsubj
16	divided	divide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 spoil	det
18	spoil	spoil	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 divided	obj
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 had	cc
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 Gallows	det
21	Black	Black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 Gallows	amod
22	Gallows	Gallows	PROPN	Number=Plur	24 had	nsubj
23	Bird	Bird	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 had	nsubj
24	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 spoil	conj
25	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	26 half	nummod
26	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	24 had	obj
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 Lad	cc
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 Lad	det
29	Shifty	shifty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 Lad	amod
30	Lad	Lad	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 half	conj
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 half	det
32	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 half	amod
33	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	30 Lad	nmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 divided	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	is a	present	ground	you	tree rules
2	is a	present		the clever boy	tree rules
3	divide	past	things = thing	the spoil	vn multiply-108-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spoil=Theme
4	have	past	the Black Gallows	one half and the Shifty Lad the other half	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent half=Patient

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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