The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 40
‘My lord,’ said Kai, ‘let me throw the water on the slab, and receive the first adventure that may befall.’
Who acts: lord, me, first adventure · What happens: say, let, throw, receive, befall · To what, where: me, water, slab, first adventure · 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 (lord, me, first adventure), 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 | _ | 6 said | punct |
| 2 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 lord | nmod:poss |
| 3 | lord | lord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 said | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 lord | punct |
| 5 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 lord | punct |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | Kai | Kai | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 said | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 let | punct |
| 9 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 let | punct |
| 10 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 said | ccomp |
| 11 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 let | obj |
| 12 | throw | throw | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 let | xcomp |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 water | det |
| 14 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 throw | obj |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 slab | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 slab | det |
| 17 | slab | slab | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 throw | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 receive | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 receive | cc |
| 20 | receive | receive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 let | conj |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 adventure | det |
| 22 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 23 adventure | amod |
| 23 | adventure | adventure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 receive | obj |
| 24 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 26 befall | nsubj |
| 25 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 befall | aux |
| 26 | befall | befall | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 adventure | acl:relcl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
| 28 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | My lord | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | let | infinitive | me | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | throw | infinitive | me not said here | the water | the slab | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent water=Theme on slab=Destination | |||
| 4 | receive | infinitive | the first adventure | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent adventure=Theme | |||||
| 5 | befall | may | the first adventure | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=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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