The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 5
‘And if we, who live close by the forest, do not know, you may be sure no one does,’ added the eldest, who was rather cross at finding this was all that the king wanted of them.
Who acts: we, you, one, king · What happens: live, not know, be, do, add, find · To what, where: this · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we, you, one, king), 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 | _ | 7 live | punct |
| 2 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 live | cc |
| 3 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 7 live | mark |
| 4 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 live | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 live | punct |
| 6 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 live | nsubj |
| 7 | live | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | close | close | ADV | Degree=Pos | 7 live | advmod |
| 9 | by | by | ADP | _ | 11 forest | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 forest | det |
| 11 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 close | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 know | punct |
| 13 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 15 know | aux |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 know | advmod |
| 15 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 7 live | parataxis |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 sure | punct |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 sure | nsubj |
| 18 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 sure | aux |
| 19 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 20 sure | cop |
| 20 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 know | ccomp |
| 21 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 22 one | det |
| 22 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 does | nsubj |
| 23 | does | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 sure | ccomp |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 does | punct |
| 25 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 23 does | punct |
| 26 | added | add | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 does | conj |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 eldest | det |
| 28 | eldest | eld | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 26 added | advcl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 cross | punct |
| 30 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 33 cross | nsubj |
| 31 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 cross | cop |
| 32 | rather | rather | ADV | _ | 33 cross | advmod |
| 33 | cross | cross | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 eldest | parataxis |
| 34 | at | at | SCONJ | _ | 35 finding | mark |
| 35 | finding | find | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 33 cross | advcl |
| 36 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 35 finding | obj |
| 37 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 38 all | cop |
| 38 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 35 finding | ccomp |
| 39 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 42 wanted | mark |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 king | det |
| 41 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 wanted | nsubj |
| 42 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 38 all | advcl |
| 43 | of | of | ADP | _ | 44 them | case |
| 44 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 42 wanted | obl |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 live | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | present | we | close property | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not know | infinitive · do-support | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 3 | is | may | you | sure property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | do | present | no one | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | add speech: assert | past | no one not said here | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 6 | is | past | cross property | tree rules | |||||
| 7 | find | gerund | this | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Topic | |||||
| 8 | want | past | the king | of girls = girl | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot |
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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