The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 86
‘Bring out thy son at once,’ roared he, ‘or the stone that is highest will be lowest,’ and this time the real prince was brought.
Who acts: you, stone · What happens: bring out, roar, be, bring · To what, where: son, real prince
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, stone), 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 Bring | punct |
| 2 | Bring | bring | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | out | out | ADP | _ | 2 Bring | compound:prt |
| 4 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 5 son | nmod:poss |
| 5 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Bring | obj |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 once | case |
| 7 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 2 Bring | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 roared | punct |
| 9 | ’ | ' | CCONJ | _ | 10 roared | cc |
| 10 | roared | roar | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 Bring | conj |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 roared | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 ‘ | punct |
| 13 | ‘ | ‘ | SYM | Number=Sing | 2 Bring | obj |
| 14 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 19 highest | cc |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 stone | det |
| 16 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 highest | nsubj |
| 17 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 highest | nsubj |
| 18 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 highest | cop |
| 19 | highest | high | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 13 ‘ | conj |
| 20 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 lowest | aux |
| 21 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 22 lowest | cop |
| 22 | lowest | low | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 19 highest | conj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 lowest | punct |
| 24 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 22 lowest | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 brought | cc |
| 26 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 27 time | det |
| 27 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 brought | obl:unmarked |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 prince | det |
| 29 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 prince | amod |
| 30 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 brought | nsubj:pass |
| 31 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 brought | aux:pass |
| 32 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 lowest | conj |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Bring | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring out | imperative | you not said here | thy son | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | roar | past | you not said here | son | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location he=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is | present | the stone | high property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | is | future | the stone not said here | low property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | bring | past · passive | the real prince | time | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Destination |
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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