The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 28
Thereupon Owen was summoned to her presence, and he accepted with joy the hand that she offered him, and they were married forthwith, and the men of the earldom did him homage.
Who acts: Owen, countess, men · What happens: summon, accept, offer, marry, do · To what, where: Owen, hand, lands
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 (Owen, countess, men), 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 | Thereupon | thereupon | ADV | _ | 2 Owen | advmod |
| 2 | Owen | Owen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 summoned | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 summoned | aux:pass |
| 4 | summoned | summon | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 presence | case |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 presence | nmod:poss |
| 7 | presence | presence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 summoned | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 accepted | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 accepted | cc |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 accepted | nsubj |
| 11 | accepted | accept | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 summoned | conj |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 joy | case |
| 13 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 accepted | obl |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 hand | det |
| 15 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 accepted | obj |
| 16 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 offered | obj |
| 17 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 offered | nsubj |
| 18 | offered | offer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 hand | acl:relcl |
| 19 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 offered | iobj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 married | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 married | cc |
| 22 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 married | nsubj:pass |
| 23 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 married | aux:pass |
| 24 | married | marry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 summoned | conj |
| 25 | forthwith | forthwith | ADV | _ | 24 married | advmod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 did | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 did | cc |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 men | det |
| 29 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 did | nsubj |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 earldom | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 earldom | det |
| 32 | earldom | earldom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 men | nmod |
| 33 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 summoned | conj |
| 34 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 did | obj |
| 35 | homage | homage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 did | obl:unmarked |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 summoned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | summon | past · passive | Owen | to countess's presence | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | accept | past | Owen | the hand | with joy | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme | |||
| 3 | offer | past | countess | the hand | Owen | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent he=Goal that=Theme | |||
| 4 | marry | past · passive | lands = land | forthwith property | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 5 | do | past | the men of the earldom | Owen | homage obl:unmarked | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Eventuality |
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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