The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 27

As to the bowl and the lance, no one knows what became of them, but some say that Bryak the sorcerer managed to steal them again, and that any one who wishes to possess them must seek them as Peronnik did.

Who acts: one, some, Bryak sorcerer, Peronnik · What happens: know, become, say, manage, steal, wish · To what, where: bowl · 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 (one, some, Bryak sorcerer, 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	As	as	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	4 bowl	case
2	to	to	ADP	_	1 As	fixed
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 bowl	det
4	bowl	bowl	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 knows	obl
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 lance	cc
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 lance	det
7	lance	lance	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bowl	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 bowl	punct
9	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	10 one	det
10	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 knows	nsubj
11	knows	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	13 became	nsubj
13	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 knows	ccomp
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 them	case
15	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 became	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 say	punct
17	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 say	cc
18	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	19 say	nsubj
19	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 knows	parataxis
20	that	that	SCONJ	_	24 managed	mark
21	Bryak	Bryak	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 sorcerer	compound
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 sorcerer	det
23	sorcerer	sorcerer	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 managed	nsubj
24	managed	manage	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 say	ccomp
25	to	to	PART	_	26 steal	mark
26	steal	steal	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 managed	xcomp
27	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 steal	obj
28	again	again	ADV	_	26 steal	advmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 seek	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 seek	cc
31	that	that	SCONJ	_	40 seek	mark
32	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	33 one	det
33	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 seek	nsubj
34	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	35 wishes	nsubj
35	wishes	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 one	acl:relcl
36	to	to	PART	_	37 possess	mark
37	possess	possess	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 wishes	xcomp
38	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 possess	obj
39	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	40 seek	aux
40	seek	seek	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 say	conj
41	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 seek	obj
42	as	as	SCONJ	_	44 did	mark
43	Peronnik	Peronnik	PROPN	Number=Sing	44 did	nsubj
44	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 seek	advcl
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 knows	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	know	present	no one			as the bowl and the lance	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	become	past				of bowl	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
3	say speech: assert	present	some				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	manage	past	the Bryak sorcerer				vn succeed-74-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	steal	to-infinitive	the Bryak sorcerer not said here	bowl	again		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location they=Theme
6	wish	present	any one				vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
7	possess not said to happen	to-infinitive	any one not said here	bowl			vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot they=Theme
8	seek	must	any one	bowl			vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
9	do	past	Peronnik				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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