The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 66
‘By the hand of my friend,’ answered Kai, ‘often dost thou utter that with thy tongue which thou wouldest not make good with thy deeds.’
Who acts: thou · What happens: answer, do, not make · To what, where: Kai, thou, tongue
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), 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 | _ | 10 answered | punct |
| 2 | By | by | ADP | _ | 4 hand | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 hand | det |
| 4 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 answered | obl |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 friend | case |
| 6 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 friend | nmod:poss |
| 7 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 hand | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 hand | punct |
| 9 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 hand | punct |
| 10 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | Kai | Kai | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 answered | iobj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 dost | punct |
| 13 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 dost | punct |
| 14 | often | often | ADV | _ | 15 dost | advmod |
| 15 | dost | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 answered | conj |
| 16 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 15 dost | obj |
| 17 | utter | utter | ADP | _ | 18 that | case |
| 18 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 dost | obl |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 tongue | case |
| 20 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 21 tongue | nmod:poss |
| 21 | tongue | tongue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 dost | obl |
| 22 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 26 make | obj |
| 23 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 26 make | nsubj |
| 24 | wouldest | would | AUX | Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin | 26 make | aux |
| 25 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 26 make | advmod |
| 26 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 tongue | acl:relcl |
| 27 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 make | xcomp |
| 28 | with | with | ADP | _ | 30 deeds | case |
| 29 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 30 deeds | nmod:poss |
| 30 | deeds | deed | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 make | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 answered | punct |
| 32 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | Kai | by the hand of my friend | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent kai=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | do | present | thou | utter that; with thy tongue; often property | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thou=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | not make | would | thou | thy tongue | with thy deeds; good property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset which=Product |
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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