The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 105
Will you stay and do it?’ and Peronnik, though he loved his liberty and hated work, recollected the good food he had eaten, and agreed to stop.
Who acts: you, Peronnik · What happens: stay, do, love, hate, recollect, eat · To what, where: gate, liberty, work, good food
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, Peronnik), 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 | Will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 stay | aux |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 stay | nsubj |
| 3 | stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 do | cc |
| 5 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 stay | conj |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 do | obj |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 stay | punct |
| 8 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 stay | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 Peronnik | cc |
| 10 | Peronnik | Peronnik | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 stay | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 loved | punct |
| 12 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 14 loved | mark |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 loved | nsubj |
| 14 | loved | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 stay | parataxis |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 liberty | nmod:poss |
| 16 | liberty | liberty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 loved | obj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 hated | cc |
| 18 | hated | hate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 loved | conj |
| 19 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 hated | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 recollected | punct |
| 21 | recollected | recollect | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 hated | conj |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 food | det |
| 23 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 food | amod |
| 24 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 recollected | obj |
| 25 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 eaten | nsubj |
| 26 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 eaten | aux |
| 27 | eaten | eat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 24 food | acl:relcl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 agreed | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 agreed | cc |
| 30 | agreed | agree | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 recollected | advcl |
| 31 | to | to | PART | _ | 32 stop | mark |
| 32 | stop | stop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 agreed | xcomp |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 stay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stay | future | you | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | do | infinitive | you not said here | gate | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | love | past | Peronnik | Peronnik's liberty | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer liberty=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | hate | past | Peronnik not said here | work | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer work=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | recollect | past | Peronnik not said here | the good food | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent food=Theme | ||||
| 6 | eat | past · perfect | Peronnik | the good food not said here | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Patient | ||||
| 7 | agree speech: agree | past | Peronnik not said here | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 8 | stop not said to happen | to-infinitive | Peronnik not said here | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
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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