The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 54
‘No,’ answered Gwalchmai, ‘it is thou, Owen, who art the victor, take thou my sword’; but Owen would not.
Who acts: helmet, Owen · What happens: answer, be, art, take · To what, where: Gwalchmai, thou · 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 (helmet, Owen), 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 | _ | 5 answered | punct |
| 2 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 5 answered | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 No | punct |
| 4 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 No | punct |
| 5 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | Gwalchmai | Gwalchmai | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 answered | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 thou | punct |
| 8 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 thou | punct |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 thou | nsubj |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 thou | cop |
| 11 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 20 take | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 Owen | punct |
| 13 | Owen | Owen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 thou | appos |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 art | punct |
| 15 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 art | nsubj |
| 16 | art | art | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 Owen | appos |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 victor | det |
| 18 | victor | victor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 Owen | appos |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 Owen | punct |
| 20 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 answered | ccomp |
| 21 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 20 take | obj |
| 22 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 sword | nmod:poss |
| 23 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 take | obj |
| 24 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 20 take | punct |
| 25 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 28 would | punct |
| 26 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 28 would | cc |
| 27 | Owen | Owen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 would | nsubj |
| 28 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 answered | ccomp |
| 29 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 28 would | advmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | Gwalchmai | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | is a | present | helmet | thou | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | art | Owen | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | take | infinitive | thou | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument thou=Theme sword=Destination |
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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