The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 73
‘I am seeking the basin of gold and the lance of diamonds which are in the castle,’ he answered.
Who acts: I, diamonds, knight · What happens: seek, be, answer · To what, where: basin, castle
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 (I, diamonds, knight), 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 | _ | 4 seeking | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 seeking | nsubj |
| 3 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 seeking | aux |
| 4 | seeking | seek | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 22 answered | advcl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 basin | det |
| 6 | basin | basin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 seeking | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 gold | case |
| 8 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 basin | nmod |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 lance | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 lance | det |
| 11 | lance | lance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 gold | conj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 diamonds | case |
| 13 | diamonds | diamond | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 lance | nmod |
| 14 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 castle | nsubj |
| 15 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 castle | cop |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 castle | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 castle | det |
| 18 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 diamonds | acl:relcl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 seeking | punct |
| 20 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 seeking | punct |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 answered | nsubj |
| 22 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 22 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seek | present · progressive | I | the basin of gold and the lance of diamonds | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent basin=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | present | diamonds | the castle | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | answer speech: assert | past | knight | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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