The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 59
‘Now take thy road, and I will take mine,’ said the giant.
Who acts: I · What happens: take, say · To what, where: road, mine, 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 (I), 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 | _ | 3 take | punct |
| 2 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 take | advmod |
| 3 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 said | ccomp |
| 4 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 5 road | nmod:poss |
| 5 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 take | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 take | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 take | cc |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 take | nsubj |
| 9 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 take | aux |
| 10 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 take | conj |
| 11 | mine | my | PRON | Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 take | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 take | punct |
| 13 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 take | punct |
| 14 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 giant | det |
| 16 | giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 said | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | infinitive | thy road | now | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent road=Theme | ||||
| 2 | take | future | I | mine | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent my=Theme | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the giant | tree rules |
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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