The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 85
When the men inside have held counsel together, they will come to fetch thee to thy death, and they will be much grieved not to find thee.
Who acts: men, thy · What happens: hold, come, fetch, grieve, not find, die · To what, where: men, thee
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 (men, thy), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 6 held | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 men | det |
| 3 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 held | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | inside | inside | ADV | _ | 3 men | advmod |
| 5 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 held | aux |
| 6 | held | hold | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 come | advcl |
| 7 | counsel | counsel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 held | obj |
| 8 | together | together | ADV | _ | 6 held | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 held | punct |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 come | nsubj |
| 11 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 come | aux |
| 12 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 fetch | mark |
| 14 | fetch | fetch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 come | xcomp |
| 15 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 14 fetch | obj |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 death | case |
| 17 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 18 death | nmod:poss |
| 18 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 fetch | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 grieved | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 grieved | cc |
| 21 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 grieved | nsubj |
| 22 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 grieved | aux |
| 23 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 25 grieved | aux:pass |
| 24 | much | much | ADV | _ | 25 grieved | advmod |
| 25 | grieved | grieve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 come | advcl |
| 26 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 28 find | advmod |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 find | mark |
| 28 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 grieved | advcl |
| 29 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 28 find | obj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hold | present · perfect · passive | the men | together property | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V NP to be NP»: subject=Theme counsel=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | come | future | men = man | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | fetch | to-infinitive | men = man not said here | thee | to thy death | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thou=Theme | |||
| 4 | grieve | future · passive | men = man | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | |||||
| 5 | not find | to-infinitive | thee | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thou=Topic | |||||
| 6 | die | thy | nom death «event 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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