The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 42
We were all so horrified at the sight, that we should most likely have killed the man then and there, for daring to lay hands on the prince, had not his grandfather the duke stepped between and commanded us to lay the affair before you.’
Who acts: grandfather · What happens: horrify, kill, dare, lay, have, not step · To what, where: We, sight, hands, us, affair · 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 (grandfather), 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 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 horrified | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 horrified | aux |
| 3 | all | all | ADV | _ | 5 horrified | advmod |
| 4 | so | so | ADV | _ | 5 horrified | advmod |
| 5 | horrified | horrify | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 sight | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 sight | det |
| 8 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 horrified | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 killed | punct |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 killed | mark |
| 11 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 killed | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 killed | aux |
| 13 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 14 likely | advmod |
| 14 | likely | likely | ADV | _ | 16 killed | advmod |
| 15 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 16 killed | aux |
| 16 | killed | kill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 horrified | conj |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 man | det |
| 18 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 killed | obj |
| 19 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 16 killed | advmod |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 there | cc |
| 21 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 19 then | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 daring | punct |
| 23 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 24 daring | mark |
| 24 | daring | dare | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 killed | advcl |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 lay | mark |
| 26 | lay | lay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 daring | xcomp |
| 27 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 lay | obj |
| 28 | on | on | ADP | _ | 30 prince | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 prince | det |
| 30 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 lay | obl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 had | punct |
| 32 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 horrified | parataxis |
| 33 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 38 stepped | advmod |
| 34 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 grandfather | nmod:poss |
| 35 | grandfather | grandfather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 stepped | nsubj |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 duke | det |
| 37 | duke | duke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 stepped | nsubj |
| 38 | stepped | step | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 had | advcl |
| 39 | between | between | ADP | _ | 38 stepped | obl |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 commanded | cc |
| 41 | commanded | command | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 38 stepped | conj |
| 42 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 41 commanded | obj |
| 43 | to | to | PART | _ | 44 lay | mark |
| 44 | lay | lay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 41 commanded | advcl |
| 45 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 46 affair | det |
| 46 | affair | affair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 lay | obj |
| 47 | before | before | ADP | _ | 48 you | case |
| 48 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 44 lay | obl |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 horrified | punct |
| 50 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 horrified | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | horrify | past · passive | We | the sight | all property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | |||
| 2 | kill | should · perfect · passive | we | then | likely property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Experiencer man=Result | |||
| 3 | dare | gerund | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 4 | lay | to-infinitive | hands | on the prince | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent hand=Theme on prince=Destination | ||||
| 5 | have | past | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 6 | not step | past | Man's grandfather | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 7 | command | past | Man's grandfather not said here | us | vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent we=Theme | ||||
| 8 | lay | to-infinitive | Man's grandfather not said here | the affair | before you | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent affair=Theme before you=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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