The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 99
She will mount my horse behind me, and tell me what I am to do next.’
Who acts: lady, I · What happens: mount, tell, do · To what, where: horse, me · 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 (lady, I), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 mount | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 mount | aux |
| 3 | mount | mount | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 horse | nmod:poss |
| 5 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 mount | obj |
| 6 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 7 me | case |
| 7 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 mount | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 tell | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 tell | cc |
| 10 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 mount | conj |
| 11 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 tell | iobj |
| 12 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 16 do | obj |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 do | nsubj |
| 14 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 do | aux |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 do | mark |
| 16 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 tell | ccomp |
| 17 | next | next | ADV | _ | 16 do | advmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 mount | punct |
| 19 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 mount | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mount | future | lady | my horse | behind me | vn put-9.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent horse=Theme behind i=Destination | |||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | infinitive | lady not said here | me | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | do not said to happen | present | I | next property | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |
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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