The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 57

‘My lord,’ he said, ‘during the three years that I have been absent from thee I have been preparing a banquet for thee, knowing full well that thou wouldst come to seek me.

Who acts: Owen, that, I, full well · What happens: say, be, prepare, know, come, seek · To what, where: thee, banquet, full well, me · 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 (Owen, that, I, full well), 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	_	3 lord	punct
2	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 lord	nmod:poss
3	lord	lord	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	ccomp
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 lord	punct
5	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 lord	punct
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 said	nsubj
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 absent	punct
9	‘	'	PUNCT	_	18 absent	punct
10	during	during	ADP	_	13 years	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 years	det
12	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 years	nummod
13	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 absent	obl
14	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 absent	nsubj
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 absent	nsubj
16	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 absent	aux
17	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	18 absent	cop
18	absent	absent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 said	ccomp
19	from	from	ADP	_	20 thee	case
20	thee	thou	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	18 absent	obl
21	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 preparing	nsubj
22	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 preparing	aux
23	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	24 preparing	aux
24	preparing	prepare	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 said	ccomp
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 banquet	det
26	banquet	banquet	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 preparing	obj
27	for	for	ADP	_	28 thee	case
28	thee	thou	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	24 preparing	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 knowing	punct
30	knowing	know	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	24 preparing	advcl
31	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 well	amod
32	well	well	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 knowing	obj
33	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	36 come	nsubj
34	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	36 come	nsubj
35	wouldst	would	AUX	Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin	36 come	aux
36	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 well	acl:relcl
37	to	to	PART	_	38 seek	mark
38	seek	seek	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 come	xcomp
39	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	38 seek	obj
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Owen					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	is	present · perfect	that		thee	year	absent property	tree rules
3	prepare	present · perfect · progressive	I	a banquet			for thee	vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent banquet=Product for thou=Beneficiary
4	know	gerund	I not said here	full well				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer well=Stimulus
5	come	would	full well					tree rules
6	seek	to-infinitive	full well not said here	me				vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=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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