The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 22
‘This is the man whom the child has twice chosen,’ said the chamberlain, signing to the Shifty Lad to kneel before the king.
Who acts: This, man · What happens: be, choose, say, sign, kneel · To what, where: man, child, chamberlain, Shifty Lad · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (This, man), 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 | _ | 5 man | punct |
| 2 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 man | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 man | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 man | det |
| 5 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 said | nsubj |
| 6 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 chosen | obj |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 child | det |
| 8 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 chosen | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 chosen | aux |
| 10 | twice | twice | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 11 chosen | advmod |
| 11 | chosen | choose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 man | acl:relcl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 man | punct |
| 13 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 man | punct |
| 14 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 chamberlain | det |
| 16 | chamberlain | chamberlain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 said | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 signing | punct |
| 18 | signing | sign | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 said | advcl |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 Lad | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 Lad | det |
| 21 | Shifty | shifty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 Lad | amod |
| 22 | Lad | Lad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 signing | obl |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 kneel | mark |
| 24 | kneel | kneel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 signing | advcl |
| 25 | before | before | ADP | _ | 27 king | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 king | det |
| 27 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 kneel | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | This | the man | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | choose | present · perfect · passive | the child | twice property | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: subject=Beneficiary whom=Theme | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the man | the chamberlain | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent chamberlain=Topic | ||||
| 4 | sign | gerund | the man not said here | the Shifty Lad | vn instr_communication-37.4.1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Agent to lad=Recipient | ||||
| 5 | kneel | to-infinitive | the man not said here | before the king | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before king=Location |
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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