The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 60
‘Sadly did I go down the hill again, and when I reached the glade where the black man was, I confess to thee, Kai, it was a marvel that I did not melt into a liquid pool, so great was my shame.
Who acts: I, black man, glade · What happens: go down, reach, be, not melt · To what, where: hill, glade, marvel, liquid pool, great shame
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 (I, black man, glade), 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 go | punct |
| 2 | Sadly | sadly | ADV | _ | 5 go | advmod |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 go | aux |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 go | nsubj |
| 5 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | down | down | ADP | _ | 8 hill | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 hill | det |
| 8 | hill | hill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 go | obl |
| 9 | again | again | ADV | _ | 5 go | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 reached | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 reached | cc |
| 12 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 14 reached | mark |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 reached | nsubj |
| 14 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 go | advcl |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 glade | det |
| 16 | glade | glade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 reached | obj |
| 17 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 24 confess | advmod |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 man | det |
| 19 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 man | amod |
| 20 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 confess | nsubj |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 confess | cop |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 confess | punct |
| 23 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 confess | nsubj |
| 24 | confess | confess | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 glade | acl:relcl |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 thee | case |
| 26 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 24 confess | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 Kai | punct |
| 28 | Kai | Kai | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 glade | appos |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 marvel | punct |
| 30 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 marvel | nsubj |
| 31 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 marvel | cop |
| 32 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 marvel | det |
| 33 | marvel | marvel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 reached | obl |
| 34 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 38 melt | obj |
| 35 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 38 melt | nsubj |
| 36 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 38 melt | aux |
| 37 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 38 melt | advmod |
| 38 | melt | melt | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 33 marvel | acl:relcl |
| 39 | into | into | ADP | _ | 42 pool | case |
| 40 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 42 pool | det |
| 41 | liquid | liquid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 pool | amod |
| 42 | pool | pool | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 melt | obl |
| 43 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 great | punct |
| 44 | so | so | ADV | _ | 45 great | advmod |
| 45 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 48 shame | amod |
| 46 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 48 shame | cop |
| 47 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 48 shame | nmod:poss |
| 48 | shame | shame | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 go | parataxis |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go down | past · do-support | I | the hill | again | sadly property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient hill=Extent | ||
| 2 | reach | past | I | the glade | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent glade=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is | past | the black man | to thee; confess property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | is a | past | glade | a marvel | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | not melt | past · do-support | I | a marvel | a liquid pool | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent that=Material into pool=Product | |||
| 6 | is a | past | my great shame | tree rules |
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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