The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 45
‘Yes, sire, he had arms; he always carries a dagger in his belt.
Who acts: sire · What happens: have, carry · To what, where: arms, dagger, belt
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 (sire), 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 sire | punct |
| 2 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 4 sire | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Yes | punct |
| 4 | sire | sire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 had | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 sire | punct |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 had | nsubj |
| 7 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 had | obj |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 carries | punct |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 carries | nsubj |
| 11 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 12 carries | advmod |
| 12 | carries | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 had | conj |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 dagger | det |
| 14 | dagger | dagger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 carries | obj |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 belt | case |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 belt | nmod:poss |
| 17 | belt | belt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 carries | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | sire | arms | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arm=Patient | ||||
| 2 | carry | present | Sire | a dagger | Sire's belt | always property | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent dagger=Value in belt=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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