The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 49
‘Well, fight then,’ answered Arthur, and Gwalchmai threw a robe over himself and his horse, so that none knew him.
Who acts: Gwalchmai, none · What happens: fight, answer, throw, know · To what, where: Arthur, robe, Gwalchmai
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 (Gwalchmai, none), 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 fight | punct |
| 2 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 4 fight | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Well | punct |
| 4 | fight | fight | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 answered | advcl |
| 5 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 fight | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 fight | punct |
| 7 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 fight | punct |
| 8 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | Arthur | Arthur | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 answered | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 threw | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 threw | cc |
| 12 | Gwalchmai | Gwalchmai | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 threw | nsubj |
| 13 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 answered | parataxis |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 robe | det |
| 15 | robe | robe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 threw | obj |
| 16 | over | over | ADP | _ | 17 himself | case |
| 17 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 13 threw | obl |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 horse | cc |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 horse | nmod:poss |
| 20 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 himself | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 knew | punct |
| 22 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 25 knew | mark |
| 23 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 22 so | fixed |
| 24 | none | none | PRON | PronType=Neg | 25 knew | nsubj |
| 25 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 threw | conj |
| 26 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 knew | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fight | present | then | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | past | Arthur | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent arthur=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | throw | past | Gwalchmai | a robe | over Gwalchmai | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent robe=Theme over himself=Destination | |||
| 4 | know | past | none | Gwalchmai | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus |
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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