The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 45
In the morning Kai again asked leave to meet the knight and to try to overcome him, which Arthur granted.
Who acts: Kai · What happens: ask, leave, meet, try, overcome, grant · To what, where: knight · 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 (Kai), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 morning | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 morning | det |
| 3 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 asked | obl |
| 4 | Kai | Kai | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 asked | nsubj |
| 5 | again | again | ADV | _ | 6 asked | advmod |
| 6 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 asked | ccomp |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 meet | mark |
| 9 | meet | meet | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 leave | xcomp |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 knight | det |
| 11 | knight | knight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 meet | obj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 try | cc |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 try | mark |
| 14 | try | try | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 meet | conj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 overcome | mark |
| 16 | overcome | overcome | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 try | xcomp |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 overcome | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 granted | punct |
| 19 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 granted | nsubj |
| 20 | Arthur | Arthur | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 granted | nsubj |
| 21 | granted | grant | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 overcome | advcl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | past | Kai | again; morning | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | leave | infinitive | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | meet | to-infinitive | the knight | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knight=Co-Agent | |||||
| 4 | try | to-infinitive | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||||
| 5 | overcome not said to happen | to-infinitive | knight | vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot he=Theme | |||||
| 6 | grant | past | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent |
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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