The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 48
‘Oh, let me fight him, my lord,’ cried Gwalchmai, as he saw Arthur taking up his arms.
Who acts: me, knight, Arthur · What happens: let, fight, cry, see, take up · To what, where: me, knight, arms · 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 (me, knight, Arthur), 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 | _ | 4 let | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 4 let | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 cried | ccomp |
| 5 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 let | obj |
| 6 | fight | fight | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 let | xcomp |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 fight | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 lord | punct |
| 9 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 lord | nmod:poss |
| 10 | lord | lord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 let | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 let | punct |
| 12 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 let | punct |
| 13 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | Gwalchmai | Gwalchmai | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 cried | flat |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 saw | punct |
| 16 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 18 saw | mark |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 saw | nsubj |
| 18 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 cried | conj |
| 19 | Arthur | Arthur | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 taking | nsubj |
| 20 | taking | take | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 18 saw | ccomp |
| 21 | up | up | ADP | _ | 20 taking | compound:prt |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 arms | nmod:poss |
| 23 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 taking | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let | infinitive | me | my lord obl | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | fight | infinitive | me not said here | knight | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent | ||||
| 3 | cry speech: express | past | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 4 | see | past | knight | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | take up | gerund | Arthur | knight's arms | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arm=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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