The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 15
Some took my horse, and others unbuckled my armour, and washed it, with my sword and spear, till it all shone like silver.
Who acts: Some, others, armour · What happens: take, unbuckle, wash, shine · To what, where: horse, armour
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 30. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Some, others, armour), 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 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 2 took | nsubj |
| 2 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 horse | nmod:poss |
| 4 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 took | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 unbuckled | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 unbuckled | cc |
| 7 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 unbuckled | nsubj |
| 8 | unbuckled | unbuckle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 took | conj |
| 9 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 armour | nmod:poss |
| 10 | armour | armour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 unbuckled | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 washed | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 washed | cc |
| 13 | washed | wash | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 took | conj |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 washed | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 sword | punct |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 sword | case |
| 17 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 sword | nmod:poss |
| 18 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 washed | obl |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 spear | cc |
| 20 | spear | spear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 sword | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 shone | punct |
| 22 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 25 shone | mark |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 shone | nsubj |
| 24 | all | all | ADV | _ | 25 shone | advmod |
| 25 | shone | shine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 washed | conj |
| 26 | like | like | ADP | _ | 27 silver | case |
| 27 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 shone | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | Some | my horse | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument horse=Destination | ||||
| 2 | unbuckle | past | others | my armour | vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent armour=Patient | ||||
| 3 | wash | past | Some not said here | armour | with my sword and spear | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent it=Patient with sword=Instrument | |||
| 4 | shine | past | armour | like silver; all property | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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