The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 45
But in order to keep my riches, I was obliged to sacrifice a Christian to the stones, and an evil fate threw you in my way.’
Who acts: evil fate · What happens: keep, oblige, sacrifice, throw · To what, where: riches, I, Christian, stones, you, way
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 (evil fate), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 keep | cc |
| 2 | in | in | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 5 keep | mark |
| 3 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 in | fixed |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 keep | mark |
| 5 | keep | keep | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 riches | nmod:poss |
| 7 | riches | rich | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 keep | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 obliged | punct |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 obliged | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 obliged | aux:pass |
| 11 | obliged | oblige | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 keep | conj |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 sacrifice | mark |
| 13 | sacrifice | sacrifice | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 obliged | xcomp |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 Christian | det |
| 15 | Christian | Christian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 sacrifice | obj |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 stones | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 stones | det |
| 18 | stones | stone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 sacrifice | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 threw | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 threw | cc |
| 21 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 fate | det |
| 22 | evil | evil | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 fate | amod |
| 23 | fate | fate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 threw | nsubj |
| 24 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 obliged | conj |
| 25 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 24 threw | obj |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 way | case |
| 27 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 way | nmod:poss |
| 28 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 threw | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 keep | punct |
| 30 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 keep | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | to-infinitive | my riches | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rich=Theme | |||||
| 2 | oblige | past · passive | I | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Patient clause=Result | |||||
| 3 | sacrifice | to-infinitive | a Christian | the stones | vn contribute-13.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent christian=Theme to stone=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | throw | past | a evil fate | you | my way | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent you=Theme in way=Destination |
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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