The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 91
‘Haste and begone, I see the giant close at hand,’ she whispered hurriedly, ‘but when he is asleep, return hither, for I would speak with thee.’
Who acts: I, girl, boy · What happens: begone, see, whisper, be, return, speak · To what, where: Haste · 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, girl, boy), 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 Haste | punct |
| 2 | Haste | haste | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 see | obl |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 begone | cc |
| 4 | begone | begone | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 Haste | conj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Haste | punct |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 see | nsubj |
| 7 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 close | det |
| 9 | giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 close | amod |
| 10 | close | close | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 see | obl |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 hand | case |
| 12 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 close | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 whispered | punct |
| 14 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 16 whispered | punct |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 whispered | nsubj |
| 16 | whispered | whisper | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 see | parataxis |
| 17 | hurriedly | hurriedly | ADV | _ | 16 whispered | advmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 return | punct |
| 19 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 26 return | punct |
| 20 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 26 return | cc |
| 21 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 24 asleep | mark |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 asleep | nsubj |
| 23 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 asleep | cop |
| 24 | asleep | asleep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 return | advcl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 asleep | punct |
| 26 | return | return | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 16 whispered | parataxis |
| 27 | hither | hither | ADV | _ | 26 return | advmod |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 speak | punct |
| 29 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 32 speak | mark |
| 30 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 32 speak | nsubj |
| 31 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 32 speak | aux |
| 32 | speak | speak | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 return | conj |
| 33 | with | with | ADP | _ | 34 thee | case |
| 34 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 32 speak | obl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 see | punct |
| 36 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begone | infinitive | I not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | see | present | I | Haste | the giant close obl | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||
| 3 | whisper speech: assert | past | girl | hurriedly property | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | is | present | boy | asleep property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | return | infinitive | hither property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | speak speech: other | would | I | with thee | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with thou=Co-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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