The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 46

And at the moment in which their song sounds sweetest thou wilt hear a murmuring and complaining coming towards thee along the valley, and thou wilt see a knight in black velvet bestriding a black horse, bearing a lance with a black pennon, and he will spur his steed so as to fight thee.

Who acts: thou, black velvet, horse, trees · What happens: sound, hear, complain, come, see, bestride · To what, where: sweetest, murmuring, thee, knight, black velvet, black horse

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 (thou, black velvet, horse, trees), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	9 sounds	cc
2	at	at	ADP	_	4 moment	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 moment	det
4	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 sounds	obl
5	in	in	ADP	_	8 song	case
6	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 song	nsubj
7	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 song	nmod:poss
8	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 moment	nmod
9	sounds	sound	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	sweetest	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Sup	9 sounds	obl
11	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	13 hear	nsubj
12	wilt	will	AUX	Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin	13 hear	aux
13	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 sounds	advcl
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 murmuring	det
15	murmuring	murmuring	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 hear	obj
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 complaining	cc
17	complaining	complain	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	13 hear	conj
18	coming	come	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	17 complaining	xcomp
19	towards	towards	ADP	_	20 thee	case
20	thee	thou	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	18 coming	obl
21	along	along	ADP	_	23 valley	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 valley	det
23	valley	valley	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 coming	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 see	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 see	cc
26	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	28 see	nsubj
27	wilt	will	AUX	Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin	28 see	aux
28	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 sounds	parataxis
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 knight	det
30	knight	knight	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 see	obj
31	in	in	ADP	_	33 velvet	case
32	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 velvet	amod
33	velvet	velvet	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 see	obl
34	bestriding	bestride	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	33 velvet	acl
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 horse	det
36	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 horse	amod
37	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 bestriding	obj
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 bearing	punct
39	bearing	bear	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	28 see	advcl
40	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	41 lance	det
41	lance	lance	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 bearing	obj
42	with	with	ADP	_	45 pennon	case
43	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	45 pennon	det
44	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 pennon	amod
45	pennon	pennon	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 bearing	obl
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 spur	punct
47	and	and	CCONJ	_	50 spur	cc
48	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	50 spur	nsubj
49	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	50 spur	aux
50	spur	spur	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 sounds	conj
51	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	52 steed	nmod:poss
52	steed	steed	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 spur	obj
53	so	so	ADV	_	56 fight	advmod
54	as	as	SCONJ	_	56 fight	mark
55	to	to	PART	_	56 fight	mark
56	fight	fight	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	50 spur	advcl
57	thee	thou	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	56 fight	obj
58	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 sounds	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sound	present		sweetest		moment		vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	hear	future	thou	a murmuring				vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer murmuring=Stimulus
3	complain speech: other	gerund	thou not said here					vn complain-37.8 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	come	gerund	thou not said here		thee		along the valley	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme towards thou=Initial_Location along valley=Destination
5	see	future	thou	a knight	black velvet			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer knight=Stimulus
6	bestride	gerund	black velvet not said here	a black horse				vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme horse=Co-Theme
7	bear	gerund	thou not said here	a lance			with a black pennon	vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lance=Patient
8	spur	future	horse	horse's steed				vn stimulate-59.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent steed=Patient
9	fight	to-infinitive	horse not said here	thee				vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thou=Co-Agent
10	sing		trees = tree					nom song «communication intransitive»: 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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