The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 29
But do not delay me, I pray, for his highness the magician expects me, and, as you see, has lent me his colt so that I may reach the castle all the quicker.’
Who acts: you, I, magician · What happens: not delay, pray, expect, see, lend, reach · To what, where: me, colt, castle
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 27. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, I, magician), 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 | _ | 4 delay | cc |
| 2 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 delay | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 delay | advmod |
| 4 | delay | delay | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 delay | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 pray | punct |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 pray | nsubj |
| 8 | pray | pray | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 delay | parataxis |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 highness | punct |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 highness | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 highness | nmod:poss |
| 12 | highness | highness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 expects | obl |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 magician | det |
| 14 | magician | magician | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 expects | nsubj |
| 15 | expects | expect | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 delay | parataxis |
| 16 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 expects | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 see | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 see | cc |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 see | punct |
| 20 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 22 see | mark |
| 21 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 22 see | nsubj |
| 22 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 expects | conj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 lent | punct |
| 24 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 lent | aux |
| 25 | lent | lend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 15 expects | conj |
| 26 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 lent | obj |
| 27 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 colt | nmod:poss |
| 28 | colt | colt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 lent | obj |
| 29 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 33 reach | mark |
| 30 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 29 so | fixed |
| 31 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 33 reach | nsubj |
| 32 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 33 reach | aux |
| 33 | reach | reach | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 lent | advcl |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 castle | det |
| 35 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 reach | obj |
| 36 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 33 reach | obj |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 quicker | det |
| 38 | quicker | quick | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 36 all | conj |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 delay | punct |
| 40 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 delay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not delay | imperative · do-support | you not said here | me | vn delay-53.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent i=Source | ||||
| 2 | pray | present | I | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 3 | expect | present | the magician | me | for Peronnik's highness | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | |||
| 4 | see | present | you | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 5 | lend | present · perfect | the magician not said here | Peronnik's colt | me | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient colt=Theme | |||
| 6 | reach | may | I | the castle | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent castle=Beneficiary all=Theme |
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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