The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 1
‘To bring you two gifts which he has just received from the country of the Moors,’ answered Peronnik: ‘the apple of delight and the woman of submission.
What happens: bring, receive, answer · To what, where: two gifts, you, country, Peronnik
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | _ | 3 bring | punct |
| 2 | To | to | PART | _ | 3 bring | mark |
| 3 | bring | bring | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 bring | obj |
| 5 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 gifts | nummod |
| 6 | gifts | gift | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 bring | obj |
| 7 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 received | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 received | nsubj |
| 9 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 received | aux |
| 10 | just | just | ADV | _ | 11 received | advmod |
| 11 | received | receive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 gifts | acl:relcl |
| 12 | from | from | ADP | _ | 14 country | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 country | det |
| 14 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 received | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 Moors | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Moors | det |
| 17 | Moors | moor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 country | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 bring | punct |
| 19 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 bring | punct |
| 20 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 bring | conj |
| 21 | Peronnik | Peronnik | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 answered | obj |
| 22 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 25 apple | punct |
| 23 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 25 apple | punct |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 apple | det |
| 25 | apple | apple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 bring | parataxis |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 delight | case |
| 27 | delight | delight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 apple | nmod |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 woman | cc |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 woman | det |
| 30 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 apple | conj |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 submission | case |
| 32 | submission | submission | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 woman | nmod |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 bring | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring | to-infinitive | two gifts | you | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent you=Destination gift=Theme | ||||
| 2 | receive | present · perfect · passive | two gifts | the country of the Moors | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: subject=Theme from country=Source | ||||
| 3 | answer speech: assert | past | Peronnik | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent peronnik=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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