The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 44
‘I am that raven, and I was delivered by thee from the spells that bound me, and in reward thou wilt get this bundle.
Who acts: I, thee, spells, thou · What happens: be, deliver, bound, get · To what, where: raven, I, spells, me, bundle, reward
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 (I, thee, spells, thou), 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 | _ | 5 raven | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 raven | nsubj |
| 3 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 raven | cop |
| 4 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 raven | det |
| 5 | raven | raven | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 delivered | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 delivered | cc |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 delivered | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 delivered | aux:pass |
| 10 | delivered | deliver | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 raven | conj |
| 11 | by | by | ADP | _ | 12 thee | case |
| 12 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 10 delivered | obl |
| 13 | from | from | ADP | _ | 15 spells | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 spells | det |
| 15 | spells | spell | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 delivered | obl |
| 16 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 bound | nsubj |
| 17 | bound | bound | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 spells | acl:relcl |
| 18 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 bound | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 get | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 get | cc |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 reward | case |
| 22 | reward | reward | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 get | obl |
| 23 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 25 get | nsubj |
| 24 | wilt | will | AUX | Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin | 25 get | aux |
| 25 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 raven | parataxis |
| 26 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 27 bundle | det |
| 27 | bundle | bundle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 get | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 raven | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | I | that raven | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | deliver | past · passive | thee | I | the spells | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent subject=Theme from spell=Initial_Location | |||
| 3 | bound | present | the spells | me | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location i=Theme | ||||
| 4 | get | future | thou | this bundle | reward | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bundle=Stimulus |
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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