The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 53
‘Bad is the place where thou hast built thy house, king’s son,’ said the giant.
Who acts: Bad, thou, place · What happens: be, have, build, say · To what, where: place, house, giant · 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 (Bad, thou, place), 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 place | punct |
| 2 | Bad | Bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 place | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 place | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 place | det |
| 5 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 said | nsubj |
| 6 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 8 hast | advmod |
| 7 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 8 hast | nsubj |
| 8 | hast | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 place | acl:relcl |
| 9 | built | build | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 hast | advcl |
| 10 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 11 house | nmod:poss |
| 11 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 built | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 son | punct |
| 13 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 son | nmod:poss |
| 14 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 13 king | case |
| 15 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 house | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 hast | punct |
| 17 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 place | punct |
| 18 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 giant | det |
| 20 | giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 said | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Bad | the place | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | have | present | thou | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | build | participle | thou not said here | thy house and king's son | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset house=Product | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | the place | the giant | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent giant=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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