The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 70
‘Leave thou the matter between me and the giant,’ and as she spoke, the giant entered the hall and stood before them.
Who acts: you, queen, giant · What happens: leave, speak, enter, stand · To what, where: thou, hall · 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 (you, queen, giant), 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 | _ | 2 Leave | punct |
| 2 | Leave | leave | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 2 Leave | obj |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 matter | det |
| 5 | matter | matter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Leave | obj |
| 6 | between | between | ADP | _ | 7 me | case |
| 7 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 Leave | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 giant | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 giant | det |
| 10 | giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 Leave | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Leave | punct |
| 12 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Leave | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 entered | cc |
| 14 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 16 spoke | mark |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 spoke | nsubj |
| 16 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 entered | advcl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 spoke | punct |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 giant | det |
| 19 | giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 entered | nsubj |
| 20 | entered | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 Leave | conj |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 hall | det |
| 22 | hall | hall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 entered | obj |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 stood | cc |
| 24 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 entered | conj |
| 25 | before | before | ADP | _ | 26 them | case |
| 26 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 stood | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Leave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | imperative | you not said here | thou | between me | vn sustain-55.6-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent thou=Theme matter=Attribute | |||
| 2 | speak speech: other | past | queen | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | enter | past | the giant | the hall | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme hall=Destination | ||||
| 4 | stand | past | the giant not said here | before ramparts = rampart | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before they=Location |
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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