The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 34
And sure am I that the tale told by Kynon the son of Clydno caused me to lose him.
Who acts: I · What happens: be, tell, cause, lose · To what, where: tale, son, me · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (I), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 2 sure | cc |
| 2 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 3 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 sure | cop |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 caused | nsubj |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 caused | mark |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 tale | det |
| 7 | tale | tale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 caused | nsubj |
| 8 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 tale | acl |
| 9 | by | by | ADP | _ | 10 Kynon | case |
| 10 | Kynon | Kynon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 told | obl:agent |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 son | det |
| 12 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 told | iobj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 Clydno | case |
| 14 | Clydno | Clydno | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 son | nmod |
| 15 | caused | cause | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 sure | ccomp |
| 16 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 caused | iobj |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 lose | mark |
| 18 | lose | lose | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 caused | xcomp |
| 19 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 lose | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 sure | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | sure property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | participle | the tale not said here | the son of Clydno | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent son=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | cause | past | I | me | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | lose | to-infinitive | I not said here | tale | vn succeed-74-3-1 «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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