The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 44
‘Now, lady, I have finished, and am refreshed, therefore tell me, I pray you, who you are, and whence you come?
Who acts: am, I, you · What happens: finish, refresh, tell, pray, be, come · To what, where: lady, me, 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 (am, 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 | _ | 8 finished | punct |
| 2 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 lady | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Now | punct |
| 4 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 finished | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 lady | punct |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 finished | nsubj |
| 7 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 finished | aux |
| 8 | finished | finish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 refreshed | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 refreshed | cc |
| 11 | am | a.m. | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 refreshed | nsubj |
| 12 | refreshed | refresh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 finished | advcl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 tell | punct |
| 14 | therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 15 tell | advmod |
| 15 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 refreshed | ccomp |
| 16 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 tell | iobj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 pray | punct |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 pray | nsubj |
| 19 | pray | pray | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 tell | parataxis |
| 20 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 pray | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 are | punct |
| 22 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 are | nsubj |
| 23 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 24 are | nsubj |
| 24 | are | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 pray | conj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 come | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 come | cc |
| 27 | whence | whence | ADV | PronType=Int | 29 come | advmod |
| 28 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 29 come | nsubj |
| 29 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 finished | conj |
| 30 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 finished | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | finish | present · perfect · passive | lady | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: subject=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | refresh | past | am | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | infinitive | am not said here | me | therefore property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient | |||
| 4 | pray | present | I | you | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | be | present | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 6 | come | present | you | whence property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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