The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 31
‘“I will show thee, little man,” he answered, and with his club he struck a stag on the head till he brayed loudly.
Who acts: power · What happens: show, answer, strike, bray · To what, where: thee, stag, head · 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 (power), 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 show | punct |
| 2 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 show | punct |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 show | nsubj |
| 4 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 show | aux |
| 5 | show | show | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 answered | ccomp |
| 6 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 5 show | iobj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 man | punct |
| 8 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 man | amod |
| 9 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 show | vocative |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 show | punct |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 show | punct |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 answered | nsubj |
| 13 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 struck | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 struck | cc |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 club | case |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 club | nmod:poss |
| 18 | club | club | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 struck | obl |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 struck | nsubj |
| 20 | struck | strike | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 answered | conj |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 stag | det |
| 22 | stag | stag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 struck | obj |
| 23 | on | on | ADP | _ | 25 head | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 head | det |
| 25 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 struck | obl |
| 26 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 28 brayed | mark |
| 27 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 brayed | nsubj |
| 28 | brayed | bray | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 struck | advcl |
| 29 | loudly | loudly | ADV | _ | 28 brayed | advmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | show in a quote | future | power | thee | little man vocative | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent thou=Recipient | |||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | past | power | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | strike | past | power | a stag | the head | with power's club | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent stag=Patient with club=Instrument | ||
| 4 | bray | past | power | loudly property | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=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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