The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 5
Leaving the magician where he lay, Peronnik entered the palace, bearing with him the flower that laughs.
Who acts: Peronnik, idiot, flower · What happens: leave, lie, enter, bear, laugh · To what, where: magician, palace, flower
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 (Peronnik, idiot, flower), 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 | Leaving | leave | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 entered | advcl |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 magician | det |
| 3 | magician | magician | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Leaving | obj |
| 4 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 6 lay | advmod |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 lay | nsubj |
| 6 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 magician | acl:relcl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Leaving | punct |
| 8 | Peronnik | Peronnik | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 entered | nsubj |
| 9 | entered | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 palace | det |
| 11 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 entered | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 bearing | punct |
| 13 | bearing | bear | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 entered | advcl |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 him | case |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 bearing | obl |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 flower | det |
| 17 | flower | flower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 bearing | obj |
| 18 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 laughs | nsubj |
| 19 | laughs | laugh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 flower | acl:relcl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 entered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | gerund | Peronnik not said here | the magician | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent magician=Theme | ||||
| 2 | lie | past | idiot | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | enter | past | Peronnik | the palace | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme palace=Destination | ||||
| 4 | bear | gerund | Peronnik not said here | the flower | with idiot | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flower=Patient | |||
| 5 | laugh | present | the flower | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «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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