The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 63
‘Thus shall be treated the traitor and the faithless,’ said she, and turning her horse’s head she rode out of the hall.
Who acts: damsel · What happens: treat, say, turn, ride out · To what, where: traitor, head, hall · 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 (damsel), 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 treated | punct |
| 2 | Thus | thus | ADV | _ | 5 treated | advmod |
| 3 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 treated | aux |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 treated | aux:pass |
| 5 | treated | treat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 said | ccomp |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 traitor | det |
| 7 | traitor | traitor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 treated | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 faithless | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 faithless | det |
| 10 | faithless | faithless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 traitor | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 treated | punct |
| 12 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 treated | punct |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 said | nsubj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 turning | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 turning | cc |
| 17 | turning | turn | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 said | advcl |
| 18 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 horse | nmod:poss |
| 19 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 head | nmod:poss |
| 20 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 19 horse | case |
| 21 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 turning | obj |
| 22 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 rode | nsubj |
| 23 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 turning | conj |
| 24 | out | out | ADP | _ | 27 hall | case |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 hall | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 hall | det |
| 27 | hall | hall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 rode | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | treat | shall · passive | the traitor | thus property | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: traitor=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | damsel | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | turn | gerund | damsel not said here | damsel's horse's head | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent head=Theme | ||||
| 4 | ride out | past | damsel | the hall | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hall=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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