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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

punctnmod:possobjcasedetnmod:posscaseoblccconjcasensubjoblnsubjacl:relclcaseoblpunctpunctccdetnmod:posscasensubjconjdetobjcaseamodnmodpunctccconjobjcaseoblpunctcccasedetoblnummodnmod:unmarkedcaseamodnmodconjcaseoblccdetconjpunctroot‘PUNCTPutVERBthyPRONfingerNOUNinADPtheDETmareNOUN’sPARTearNOUNandCCONJthrowVERBbehindADPtheePRONwhateverPRONthouPRONfindestVERBinADPitPRON,PUNCT’PUNCTandCCONJtheDETkingNOUN’sPARTsonNOUNfoundVERBaDETsplinterNOUNofADPgreyADJstoneNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJthrewVERBitPRONbehindADPhimPRON,PUNCTandCCONJinADPaDETtwinklingNOUNtwentyNUMmilesNOUNofADPsolidADJrockNOUNlayVERBbetweenADPthemPRONandCCONJtheDETgiantNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1‘'PUNCT_2 Putpunct
2PutputVERBMood=Imp VerbForm=Finrootroot
3thythyPRONCase=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch4 fingernmod:poss
4fingerfingerNOUNNumber=Sing2 Putobj
5ininADP_9 earcase
6thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art7 maredet
7maremareNOUNNumber=Sing9 earnmod:poss
8’s'sPART_7 marecase
9earearNOUNNumber=Sing2 Putobl
10andandCCONJ_11 throwcc
11throwthrowVERBMood=Imp VerbForm=Fin2 Putconj
12behindbehindADP_14 whatevercase
13theethouPRONCase=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch14 whatevernsubj
14whateverwhateverPRONPronType=Rel11 throwobl
15thouthouPRONCase=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch16 findestnsubj
16findestfindVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin14 whateveracl:relcl
17ininADP_18 itcase
18ititPRONCase=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs16 findestobl
19,,PUNCT_2 Putpunct
20’'PUNCT_2 Putpunct
21andandCCONJ_26 foundcc
22thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art23 kingdet
23kingkingNOUNNumber=Sing25 sonnmod:poss
24’s'sPART_23 kingcase
25sonsonNOUNNumber=Sing26 foundnsubj
26foundfindVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin2 Putconj
27aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art28 splinterdet
28splintersplinterNOUNNumber=Sing26 foundobj
29ofofADP_31 stonecase
30greygreyADJDegree=Pos31 stoneamod
31stonestoneNOUNNumber=Sing28 splinternmod
32,,PUNCT_34 threwpunct
33andandCCONJ_34 threwcc
34threwthrowVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin26 foundconj
35ititPRONCase=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs34 threwobj
36behindbehindADP_37 himcase
37himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs34 threwobl
38,,PUNCT_48 laypunct
39andandCCONJ_48 laycc
40ininADP_42 twinklingcase
41aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art42 twinklingdet
42twinklingtwinklingNOUNNumber=Sing48 layobl
43twentytwentyNUMNumForm=Word NumType=Card44 milesnummod
44milesmileNOUNNumber=Plur42 twinklingnmod:unmarked
45ofofADP_47 rockcase
46solidsolidADJDegree=Pos47 rockamod
47rockrockNOUNNumber=Sing44 milesnmod
48laylayVERBMood=Imp VerbForm=Fin2 Putconj
49betweenbetweenADP_50 themcase
50themtheyPRONCase=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs48 layobl
51andandCCONJ_53 giantcc
52thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art53 giantdet
53giantgiantNOUNNumber=Sing50 themconj
54..PUNCT_2 Putpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1putimperativeyou not said herethy fingerthe mare's earvn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent finger=Theme in ear=Destination
2throwinfinitiveyou not said herewhatevervn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent behind whatever=Destination
3findpresentthouearvn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
4findpastthe king's sona splinter of grey stonevn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent splinter=Topic
5throwpastthe king's son not said heresplinterbehind sonvn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent it=Theme behind he=Destination
6layinfinitiveyou not said herea twinkling twenty miles of solid rockbetween miles = milevn 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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