The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 61
‘Put thy finger in the mare’s ear and throw behind thee whatever thou findest in it,’ and the king’s son found a splinter of grey stone, and threw it behind him, and in a twinkling twenty miles of solid rock lay between them and the giant.
Who acts: you, thou, son · What happens: put, throw, find, lay · To what, where: finger, ear, whatever, splinter, twinkling
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, thou, son), 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 Put | punct |
| 2 | Put | put | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 4 finger | nmod:poss |
| 4 | finger | finger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Put | obj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 ear | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 mare | det |
| 7 | mare | mare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 ear | nmod:poss |
| 8 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 7 mare | case |
| 9 | ear | ear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Put | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 throw | cc |
| 11 | throw | throw | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 Put | conj |
| 12 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 14 whatever | case |
| 13 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 14 whatever | nsubj |
| 14 | whatever | whatever | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 throw | obl |
| 15 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 16 findest | nsubj |
| 16 | findest | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 whatever | acl:relcl |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 it | case |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 findest | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Put | punct |
| 20 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Put | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 found | cc |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 king | det |
| 23 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 son | nmod:poss |
| 24 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 23 king | case |
| 25 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 found | nsubj |
| 26 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 Put | conj |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 splinter | det |
| 28 | splinter | splinter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 found | obj |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 stone | case |
| 30 | grey | grey | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 stone | amod |
| 31 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 splinter | nmod |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 threw | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 threw | cc |
| 34 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 found | conj |
| 35 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 threw | obj |
| 36 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 37 him | case |
| 37 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 threw | obl |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 48 lay | punct |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 48 lay | cc |
| 40 | in | in | ADP | _ | 42 twinkling | case |
| 41 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 42 twinkling | det |
| 42 | twinkling | twinkling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 lay | obl |
| 43 | twenty | twenty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 44 miles | nummod |
| 44 | miles | mile | NOUN | Number=Plur | 42 twinkling | nmod:unmarked |
| 45 | of | of | ADP | _ | 47 rock | case |
| 46 | solid | solid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 47 rock | amod |
| 47 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 miles | nmod |
| 48 | lay | lay | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 Put | conj |
| 49 | between | between | ADP | _ | 50 them | case |
| 50 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 48 lay | obl |
| 51 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 53 giant | cc |
| 52 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 53 giant | det |
| 53 | giant | giant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 50 them | conj |
| 54 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | imperative | you not said here | thy finger | the mare's ear | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent finger=Theme in ear=Destination | |||
| 2 | throw | infinitive | you not said here | whatever | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent behind whatever=Destination | ||||
| 3 | find | present | thou | ear | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | find | past | the king's son | a splinter of grey stone | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent splinter=Topic | ||||
| 5 | throw | past | the king's son not said here | splinter | behind son | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent it=Theme behind he=Destination | |||
| 6 | lay | infinitive | you not said here | a twinkling twenty miles of solid rock | between miles = mile | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in twinkling=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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