The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 66

‘Ahti,’ said they, ‘is a mighty king who lives in his dominion of Ahtola, and has a rock at the bottom of the sea, and possesses besides a treasury of good things.

Who acts: Ahti, gods, mighty king · What happens: say, be, live, have, possess · To what, where: mighty king, dominion, rock, bottom · 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 (Ahti, gods, mighty 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	_	2 Ahti	punct
2	Ahti	Ahti	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 said	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Ahti	punct
4	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Ahti	punct
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 king	nsubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 they	punct
8	‘	'	PUNCT	_	6 they	punct
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 king	cop
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 king	det
11	mighty	mighty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 king	amod
12	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	ccomp
13	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 lives	nsubj
14	lives	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 king	acl:relcl
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 dominion	case
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 dominion	nmod:poss
17	dominion	dominion	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 lives	obl
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 Ahtola	case
19	Ahtola	Ahtola	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 dominion	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 has	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 has	cc
22	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 said	ccomp
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 rock	det
24	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 has	obj
25	at	at	ADP	_	27 bottom	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 bottom	det
27	bottom	bottom	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 has	obl
28	of	of	ADP	_	30 sea	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 sea	det
30	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 bottom	nmod
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 possesses	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 possesses	cc
33	possesses	possess	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 has	conj
34	besides	besides	ADP	_	36 treasury	case
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 treasury	det
36	treasury	treasury	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 possesses	obl
37	of	of	ADP	_	39 things	case
38	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 things	amod
39	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 treasury	nmod
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Ahti				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	is a	present	gods = god	a mighty king			tree rules
3	live	present	a mighty king		Ahti's dominion of Ahtola		vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in dominion=Location
4	have	present		a rock	the bottom of the sea		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rock=Patient
5	possess	present				besides a treasury of good things	vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: 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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