The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 4
Thou knowest well that alone thou canst not preserve thy lands, therefore seek some one to help thee.’
Who acts: Thou · What happens: know, not preserve, seek, help · To what, where: lands, one, thee
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 (Thou), 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 | Thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 2 knowest | nsubj |
| 2 | knowest | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 2 knowest | advmod |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 preserve | mark |
| 5 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 9 preserve | advmod |
| 6 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 9 preserve | nsubj |
| 7 | canst | can | AUX | Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin | 9 preserve | aux |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 preserve | advmod |
| 9 | preserve | preserve | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 knowest | advcl |
| 10 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 11 lands | nmod:poss |
| 11 | lands | land | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 preserve | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 seek | punct |
| 13 | therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 14 seek | advmod |
| 14 | seek | seek | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 knowest | conj |
| 15 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 16 one | det |
| 16 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 seek | obj |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 help | mark |
| 18 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 seek | advcl |
| 19 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 18 help | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 knowest | punct |
| 21 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 knowest | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | present | Thou | well property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | not preserve | can | thou | thy lands | alone property | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent land=Beneficiary | |||
| 3 | seek | infinitive | Thou not said here | some one | therefore property | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme | |||
| 4 | help | to-infinitive | Thou not said here | thee | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thou=Beneficiary |
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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