The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 33

‘From what he says, he wants one very badly,’ replied Peronnik, ‘as he declares that all his grain and all the fruit in his garden at Kerglas are eaten up by the birds.’

Who acts: magician, Peronnik, birds · What happens: say, want, reply, declare, eat up · To what, where: one, grain · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (magician, Peronnik, birds), 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	_	8 wants	punct
2	From	from	SCONJ	_	5 says	mark
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 says	obj
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 says	nsubj
5	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 wants	advcl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 says	punct
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 wants	nsubj
8	wants	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 replied	advcl
9	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 wants	obj
10	very	very	ADV	_	11 badly	advmod
11	badly	badly	ADV	Degree=Pos	9 one	advmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 wants	punct
13	’	'	PUNCT	_	8 wants	punct
14	replied	reply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	Peronnik	Peronnik	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 replied	nsubj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 declares	punct
17	‘	'	PUNCT	_	20 declares	punct
18	as	as	SCONJ	_	20 declares	mark
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 declares	nsubj
20	declares	declare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 replied	parataxis
21	that	that	SCONJ	_	35 eaten	mark
22	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	24 grain	det:predet
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 grain	nmod:poss
24	grain	grain	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 eaten	nsubj:pass
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 fruit	cc
26	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	28 fruit	det:predet
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 fruit	det
28	fruit	fruit	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 grain	conj
29	in	in	ADP	_	31 garden	case
30	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 garden	nmod:poss
31	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 fruit	nmod
32	at	at	ADP	_	33 Kerglas	case
33	Kerglas	Kerglas	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 grain	nmod
34	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	35 eaten	aux:pass
35	eaten	eat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 declares	advcl
36	up	up	ADP	_	35 eaten	compound:prt
37	by	by	ADP	_	39 birds	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 birds	det
39	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 eaten	obl:agent
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	20 declares	punct
41	’	'	PUNCT	_	20 declares	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	magician		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic
2	want	present	magician	one	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot one=Theme
3	reply speech: assert	past	Peronnik		vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	declare speech: other	present	magician		vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
5	eat up	present · passive	the birds	magician's grain at Kerglas and all fruit in magician's garden	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=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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