The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 82

‘That is true,’ said the knight, ‘but there is a spell laid upon him which forbids his using it within the castle of Kerglas.

Who acts: That, spell · What happens: be, say, lay, forbid, use · To what, where: knight, spell, magician, lance · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (That, spell), 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 true	punct
2	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 true	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 true	cop
4	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct
6	’	'	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 true	conj
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 knight	det
9	knight	knight	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct
11	‘	'	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 is	cc
13	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	14 is	expl
14	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 true	conj
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 spell	det
16	spell	spell	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 is	nsubj
17	laid	lay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 spell	acl
18	upon	upon	ADP	_	19 him	case
19	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 laid	obl
20	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 forbids	nsubj
21	forbids	forbid	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 spell	acl:relcl
22	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 forbids	obj
23	using	use	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 his	advcl
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 using	obj
25	within	within	ADP	_	27 castle	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 castle	det
27	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 using	obl
28	of	of	ADP	_	29 Kerglas	case
29	Kerglas	Kerglas	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 castle	nmod
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 true	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	That			true property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	That not said here	the knight			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent knight=Topic
3	be	present	a spell		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	lay	participle		a spell not said here		upon magician	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent upon he=Destination
5	forbid	present	a spell	magician			vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer his=Theme
6	use	gerund	a spell not said here	lance		within the castle of Kerglas	vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient

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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