The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 55

‘Give me your swords,’ said Arthur from behind them, ‘for neither of you has vanquished the other,’ and Owen turned and put his arms round Arthur’s neck.

Who acts: Arthur, neither, Owen · What happens: give, say, vanquish, turn, put · To what, where: swords, me, other, 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 (Arthur, neither, 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	_	2 Give	punct
2	Give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 said	ccomp
3	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 Give	iobj
4	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 swords	nmod:poss
5	swords	sword	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 Give	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Give	punct
7	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Give	punct
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	Arthur	Arthur	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 said	nsubj
10	from	from	ADP	_	12 them	case
11	behind	behind	ADP	_	12 them	case
12	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 said	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 vanquished	punct
14	‘	'	PUNCT	_	20 vanquished	punct
15	for	for	SCONJ	_	20 vanquished	mark
16	neither	neither	DET	PronType=Neg	20 vanquished	nsubj
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 you	case
18	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 neither	nmod
19	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 vanquished	aux
20	vanquished	vanquish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 said	parataxis
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 other	det
22	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 vanquished	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 vanquished	punct
24	’	'	PUNCT	_	20 vanquished	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 turned	cc
26	Owen	Owen	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 turned	nsubj
27	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 vanquished	conj
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 put	cc
29	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 turned	conj
30	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 arms	nmod:poss
31	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 put	obj
32	round	round	ADP	_	35 neck	case
33	Arthur	Arthur	PROPN	Number=Sing	35 neck	nmod:poss
34	’s	's	PART	_	33 Arthur	case
35	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 put	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	give	infinitive		your swords	me		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient sword=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	Arthur			from sword	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	vanquish	present · perfect	neither	the other			tree rules
4	turn	past	Owen				vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
5	put	past	Owen not said here	Owen's arms		round Arthur's neck	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent arm=Goal

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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