The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 78
Feeling himself wounded unto death the knight fled, and Owen pursued him till they came to a splendid castle.
Who acts: Feeling, knight, Owen, knights · What happens: feel, wound, flee, pursue, come · To what, where: blow, splendid castle
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 (Feeling, knight, Owen, knights), 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 | Feeling | feel | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 wounded | csubj |
| 2 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 1 Feeling | obj |
| 3 | wounded | wound | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | unto | unto | ADP | _ | 5 death | case |
| 5 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 wounded | obl |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 knight | det |
| 7 | knight | knight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 fled | nsubj |
| 8 | fled | flee | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 wounded | parataxis |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 pursued | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 pursued | cc |
| 11 | Owen | Owen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 pursued | nsubj |
| 12 | pursued | pursue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 wounded | conj |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 pursued | obj |
| 14 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 16 came | mark |
| 15 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 came | nsubj |
| 16 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 pursued | advcl |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 castle | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 castle | det |
| 19 | splendid | splendid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 castle | amod |
| 20 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 came | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 wounded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | gerund | blow | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Theme | |||||
| 2 | wound | past | Feeling | unto death | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | flee | past | the knight | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | pursue | past | Owen | blow | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 5 | come | past | knights = knight | a splendid castle | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to castle=Initial_Location |
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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