The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 36
‘Willingly,’ answered the king; ‘go first, and we will follow you.’
Who acts: we · What happens: answer, go, follow · To what, where: king, you · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we), 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 | _ | 5 answered | punct |
| 2 | Willingly | willingly | ADV | _ | 5 answered | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Willingly | punct |
| 4 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 answered | punct |
| 5 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 king | det |
| 7 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 answered | obj |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 go | punct |
| 9 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 go | punct |
| 10 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 5 answered | ccomp |
| 11 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 10 go | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 follow | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 follow | cc |
| 14 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 follow | nsubj |
| 15 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 follow | aux |
| 16 | follow | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 go | advcl |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 follow | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 go | punct |
| 19 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | the king | willingly property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | go | infinitive | first property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | follow | future | we | you | vn chase-51.6 «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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