The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 72
‘I will do thy bidding,’ answered he, and left her at the gate.
Who acts: I, thy · What happens: do, answer, leave, bid · To what, where: bidding, son, bride, gate
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 (I, thy), 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 | _ | 4 do | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 do | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 do | aux |
| 4 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 6 bidding | nmod:poss |
| 6 | bidding | bidding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 do | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 answered | punct |
| 8 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 answered | punct |
| 9 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 do | parataxis |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 answered | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 left | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 left | cc |
| 13 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 answered | conj |
| 14 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 left | obj |
| 15 | at | at | ADP | _ | 17 gate | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 gate | det |
| 17 | gate | gate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 left | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 do | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | future | I | thy bidding | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bidding=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | past | son | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent he=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | leave | past | bride | the gate | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent she=Theme at gate=Location | ||||
| 4 | bid | thy | nom bidding «communication transitive»: poss=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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