The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 44

‘Not me!’ answered the sorcerer, holding up the crowsfoot and the five-leaved trefoil, ‘for these will preserve me.

Who acts: me · What happens: answer, hold up, preserve · To what, where: sorcerer, crowsfoot, me

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 (me), 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	_	3 me	punct
2	Not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	3 me	advmod
3	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 answered	nsubj
4	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 me	punct
5	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 me	punct
6	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 sorcerer	det
8	sorcerer	sorcerer	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 answered	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 holding	punct
10	holding	hold	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 answered	advcl
11	up	up	ADP	_	10 holding	compound:prt
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 crowsfoot	det
13	crowsfoot	crowsfoot	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 holding	obj
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 trefoil	cc
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 trefoil	det
16	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 leaved	nummod
17	-	-	PUNCT	_	16 five	punct
18	leaved	leaved	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 trefoil	amod
19	trefoil	trefoil	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 crowsfoot	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 preserve	punct
21	‘	'	PUNCT	_	25 preserve	punct
22	for	for	ADP	_	23 these	case
23	these	this	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	25 preserve	obl
24	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 preserve	aux
25	preserve	preserve	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 answered	conj
26	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 preserve	obj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	answer speech: assert	past	me	the sorcerer			vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent sorcerer=Eventuality
2	hold up	gerund	me not said here	the crowsfoot and the leaved trefoil			vn support-15.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot crowsfoot=Theme
3	preserve	future	me not said here		me	for these	vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary

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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