The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 82
‘By my troth!’ cried Owen, ‘I can no more open it from here than thou art able to set me free.’
Who acts: Owen · What happens: cry, set · To what, where: me
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 (Owen), 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 | _ | 7 cried | punct |
| 2 | By | by | ADP | _ | 4 troth | case |
| 3 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 troth | nmod:poss |
| 4 | troth | troth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 cried | obl |
| 5 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 troth | punct |
| 6 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 troth | punct |
| 7 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | Owen | Owen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 cried | nsubj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 open | punct |
| 10 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 open | punct |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 open | nsubj |
| 12 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 open | aux |
| 13 | no | no | ADV | _ | 15 open | advmod |
| 14 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 15 open | advmod |
| 15 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 cried | parataxis |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 open | nsubj |
| 17 | from | from | ADP | _ | 18 here | case |
| 18 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 15 open | obl |
| 19 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 21 art | mark |
| 20 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 21 art | nsubj |
| 21 | art | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 open | advcl |
| 22 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 art | xcomp |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 set | mark |
| 24 | set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 able | xcomp |
| 25 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 set | obj |
| 26 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 set | xcomp |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 cried | punct |
| 28 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry speech: express | past | Owen | by my troth | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by troth=Location | ||||
| 2 | set | to-infinitive | Owen not said here | me | free property | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient i=Result |
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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