The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 101
‘For a hundred years no man has swept this byre,’ said the giant, ‘but if by nightfall, when I reach home, thou has not cleaned it so that a golden apple can roll through it from end to end, thy blood shall pay for it.’
Who acts: man, I, golden apple, blood · What happens: sweep, say, reach, not clean, roll, pay · To what, where: byre, giant, thou · Speech: someone speaks here
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: who acts (man, I, golden apple, blood), 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 | _ | 9 swept | punct |
| 2 | For | for | ADP | _ | 5 years | case |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 hundred | det |
| 4 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 years | nummod |
| 5 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 swept | obl |
| 6 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 7 man | det |
| 7 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 swept | nsubj |
| 8 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 swept | aux |
| 9 | swept | sweep | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 14 said | ccomp |
| 10 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 byre | det |
| 11 | byre | byre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 swept | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 swept | punct |
| 13 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 said | punct |
| 14 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 giant | det |
| 16 | giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 said | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 cleaned | punct |
| 18 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 32 cleaned | punct |
| 19 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 32 cleaned | cc |
| 20 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 26 reach | mark |
| 21 | by | by | ADP | _ | 22 nightfall | case |
| 22 | nightfall | nightfall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 reach | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 nightfall | punct |
| 24 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 26 reach | mark |
| 25 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 reach | nsubj |
| 26 | reach | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 32 cleaned | advcl |
| 27 | home | home | ADV | _ | 26 reach | advmod |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 reach | punct |
| 29 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 32 cleaned | nsubj:pass |
| 30 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 32 cleaned | aux |
| 31 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 32 cleaned | advmod |
| 32 | cleaned | clean | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 said | conj |
| 33 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 cleaned | obj |
| 34 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 40 roll | mark |
| 35 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 34 so | fixed |
| 36 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 38 apple | det |
| 37 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 apple | amod |
| 38 | apple | apple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 roll | nsubj |
| 39 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 40 roll | aux |
| 40 | roll | roll | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 32 cleaned | advcl |
| 41 | through | through | ADP | _ | 42 it | case |
| 42 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 roll | obl |
| 43 | from | from | ADP | _ | 44 end | case |
| 44 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 roll | obl |
| 45 | to | to | ADP | _ | 46 end | case |
| 46 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 roll | obl |
| 47 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 51 pay | punct |
| 48 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 49 blood | nmod:poss |
| 49 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 51 pay | nsubj |
| 50 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 51 pay | aux |
| 51 | pay | pay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 40 roll | conj |
| 52 | for | for | ADP | _ | 53 it | case |
| 53 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 51 pay | obl |
| 54 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 said | punct |
| 55 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sweep | present · perfect | no man | this byre | year | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme byre=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the giant | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | reach a condition, not said to happen | present | I | by nightfall; home property | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | not clean | present · perfect · passive | thou | vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: subject=Beneficiary it=Patient | |||||
| 5 | roll | can | a golden apple | byre | from end; to end | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Theme through it=Source from end=Trajectory to end=Destination | |||
| 6 | pay | shall | thy blood | for byre | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent for it=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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