The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 18
‘You need blow no more,’ said he, ‘for I myself will free the town from her enemies.’
Who acts: You, Peronnik · What happens: blow, say · To what, where: more · 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 (You, Peronnik), 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 | _ | 4 blow | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 blow | nsubj |
| 3 | need | need | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 blow | aux |
| 4 | blow | blow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 said | ccomp |
| 5 | no | no | ADV | _ | 6 more | advmod |
| 6 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 4 blow | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 blow | punct |
| 8 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 blow | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 said | nsubj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 free | punct |
| 12 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 17 free | punct |
| 13 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 17 free | mark |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 free | nsubj |
| 15 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 17 free | nsubj |
| 16 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 free | aux |
| 17 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 said | conj |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 town | det |
| 19 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 free | nsubj |
| 20 | from | from | ADP | _ | 22 enemies | case |
| 21 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 enemies | nmod:poss |
| 22 | enemies | enemy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 free | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 24 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | blow | present | You | more | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent more=Patient | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Peronnik | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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