The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 109

‘Yesterday,’ answered the earl, ‘my two sons were seized, while thy were hunting, by a monster who dwells on those mountains yonder, and he vows that he will not let them go unless I give him my daughter to wife.’

Who acts: thy, monster, son, peace, I · What happens: answer, seize, hunt, dwell, vow, not let · To what, where: earl, two sons, mountains, peace, daughter, son

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 31. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thy, monster, son, peace), 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	_	2 Yesterday	punct
2	Yesterday	yesterday	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 answered	ccomp
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Yesterday	punct
4	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Yesterday	punct
5	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 earl	det
7	earl	earl	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 answered	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 seized	punct
9	‘	'	PUNCT	_	14 seized	punct
10	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 sons	nmod:poss
11	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 sons	nummod
12	sons	son	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 seized	nsubj
13	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 seized	aux:pass
14	seized	seize	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 answered	parataxis
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 hunting	punct
16	while	while	SCONJ	_	19 hunting	mark
17	thy	thy	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch	19 hunting	nsubj
18	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 hunting	aux
19	hunting	hunt	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 seized	advcl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 monster	punct
21	by	by	ADP	_	23 monster	case
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 monster	det
23	monster	monster	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 hunting	obl
24	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 dwells	nsubj
25	dwells	dwell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 monster	acl:relcl
26	on	on	ADP	_	28 mountains	case
27	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	28 mountains	det
28	mountains	mountain	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 dwells	obl
29	yonder	yonder	ADV	_	25 dwells	advmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 vows	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 vows	cc
32	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 vows	nsubj
33	vows	vow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 answered	parataxis
34	that	that	SCONJ	_	38 let	mark
35	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 let	nsubj
36	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	38 let	aux
37	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	38 let	advmod
38	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 vows	advcl
39	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 let	obj
40	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	38 let	xcomp
41	unless	unless	SCONJ	_	43 give	mark
42	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	43 give	nsubj
43	give	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	40 go	advcl
44	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 give	iobj
45	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	46 daughter	nmod:poss
46	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 give	obj
47	to	to	PART	_	48 wife	mark
48	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 give	advcl
49	.	.	PUNCT	_	33 vows	punct
50	’	'	PUNCT	_	33 vows	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	answer speech: assert	past		the earl				vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent earl=Eventuality
2	seize	past · passive		my two sons				vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
3	hunt	past · progressive	thy				by a monster	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent by monster=Location
4	dwell	present	a monster			that mountains	yonder property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on mountain=Location
5	vow	present	son					tree rules
6	not let	future	son	peace				tree rules
7	go	infinitive	peace not said here					vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	give a condition, not said to happen	present	I	my daughter	son			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient daughter=Theme

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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