The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 27
‘The silver you find will pay for all that, and what about the gold?’
Who acts: you, silver · What happens: find, pay · To what, where: silver
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, silver), 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 pay | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 silver | det |
| 3 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 pay | nsubj |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 find | nsubj |
| 5 | find | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 silver | acl:relcl |
| 6 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 pay | aux |
| 7 | pay | pay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 that | case |
| 9 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 that | det |
| 10 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 pay | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 what | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 what | cc |
| 13 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 7 pay | conj |
| 14 | about | about | ADP | _ | 16 gold | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 gold | det |
| 16 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 what | nmod |
| 17 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 pay | punct |
| 18 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 pay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | present | you | the silver not said here | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent silver=Topic | ||||
| 2 | pay | future | the silver | for that | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent for that=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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