The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 21
His words made me sorrowful and fearful of myself, which the man perceived, and added, “If thou meanest truly what thou sayest, and desirest earnestly to prove thy valour, and not to boast vainly that none can overcome thee, I have somewhat to show thee.
Who acts: words, man, thou, none, I, hunger · What happens: make, perceive, add, meanest, say, desire · To what, where: me, valour, thee · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (words, man, thou, none), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 words | nmod:poss |
| 2 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 made | nsubj |
| 3 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 made | obj |
| 5 | sorrowful | sorrowful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 made | xcomp |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 fearful | cc |
| 7 | fearful | fearful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 sorrowful | conj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 myself | case |
| 9 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 7 fearful | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 perceived | punct |
| 11 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 perceived | obj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 man | det |
| 13 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 perceived | nsubj |
| 14 | perceived | perceive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 myself | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 added | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 added | cc |
| 17 | added | add | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 made | parataxis |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 “ | punct |
| 19 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 added | punct |
| 20 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 22 meanest | mark |
| 21 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 22 meanest | nsubj |
| 22 | meanest | meanest | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 desirest | advcl |
| 23 | truly | truly | ADV | _ | 22 meanest | advmod |
| 24 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 26 sayest | obj |
| 25 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 26 sayest | nsubj |
| 26 | sayest | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 meanest | conj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 desirest | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 desirest | cc |
| 29 | desirest | desire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 “ | parataxis |
| 30 | earnestly | earnestly | ADV | _ | 29 desirest | advmod |
| 31 | to | to | PART | _ | 32 prove | mark |
| 32 | prove | prove | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 desirest | advcl |
| 33 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 34 valour | nmod:poss |
| 34 | valour | valour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 prove | obj |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 boast | punct |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 boast | cc |
| 37 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 39 boast | advmod |
| 38 | to | to | PART | _ | 39 boast | mark |
| 39 | boast | boast | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 desirest | conj |
| 40 | vainly | vainly | ADV | _ | 39 boast | advmod |
| 41 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 44 overcome | mark |
| 42 | none | none | PRON | PronType=Neg | 44 overcome | nsubj |
| 43 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 44 overcome | aux |
| 44 | overcome | overcome | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 39 boast | advcl |
| 45 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 44 overcome | obj |
| 46 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 48 have | punct |
| 47 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 48 have | nsubj |
| 48 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 desirest | conj |
| 49 | somewhat | somewhat | ADV | _ | 51 show | advmod |
| 50 | to | to | PART | _ | 51 show | mark |
| 51 | show | show | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 48 have | xcomp |
| 52 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 51 show | obj |
| 53 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | hunger's words | me | sorrowful property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset i=Product | |||
| 2 | perceive | past | the man | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer which=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | add speech: assert | past | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 4 | meanest a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | thou | truly property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | say speech: assert in a quote | present | thou | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic | |||||
| 6 | desire in a quote | present | earnestly property | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 7 | prove in a quote | to-infinitive | thy valour | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent valour=Theme | |||||
| 8 | not boast speech: other in a quote | to-infinitive | vainly property | vn complain-37.8 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 9 | overcome in a quote | can | none | thee | vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot thou=Theme | ||||
| 10 | have in a quote | present | I | tree rules | |||||
| 11 | show in a quote | to-infinitive | I not said here | thee | somewhat property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent thou=Recipient | |||
| 12 | word | hunger | nom word «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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