The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 28
Oh, Ahti, with the long, long beard, Who dwellest in the deep blue sea, A thousand cows are in thy herd, I pray thee give three unto me.
Who acts: long long beard, thousand cows, I, thee · What happens: dwell, be, pray, give · To what, where: deep blue sea, herd, three
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (long long beard, thousand cows, I, thee), 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 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 29 pray | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Oh | punct |
| 3 | Ahti | Ahti | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Oh | vocative |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 beard | punct |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 beard | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 beard | det |
| 7 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 beard | amod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 long | punct |
| 9 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 beard | amod |
| 10 | beard | beard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 Ahti | appos |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 dwellest | punct |
| 12 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 dwellest | nsubj |
| 13 | dwellest | dwell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 beard | parataxis |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 sea | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 sea | det |
| 16 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 sea | amod |
| 17 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 sea | amod |
| 18 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 dwellest | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 herd | punct |
| 20 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 cows | det |
| 21 | thousand | thousand | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 22 cows | nummod |
| 22 | cows | cow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 herd | nsubj |
| 23 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 herd | cop |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 herd | case |
| 25 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 26 herd | nmod:poss |
| 26 | herd | herd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 Ahti | appos |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Oh | punct |
| 28 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 29 pray | nsubj |
| 29 | pray | pray | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 30 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 31 give | nsubj |
| 31 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 pray | ccomp |
| 32 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 31 give | obj |
| 33 | unto | unto | ADP | _ | 34 me | case |
| 34 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 32 three | nmod |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 29 pray | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dwell | present | the long long beard | the deep blue sea | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in sea=Location | ||||
| 2 | is | present | a thousand cows | thy herd | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | pray | present | I | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | give | infinitive | thee | three | unto me | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent three=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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