The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 83

‘It is the earl of whom I spoke to thee,’ she answered, ‘who has come with a great host to carry off my mistress.’

Who acts: sound, I, earl · What happens: be, speak, answer, come, carry off · To what, where: earl, mistress · 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 (sound, I, earl), 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 earl	punct
2	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 earl	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 earl	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 earl	det
5	earl	earl	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 answered	nsubj
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 whom	case
7	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 earl	nmod
8	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 spoke	nsubj
9	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 whom	acl:relcl
10	to	to	ADP	_	11 thee	case
11	thee	thou	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	9 spoke	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 earl	punct
13	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 earl	punct
14	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 answered	nsubj
15	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 come	punct
17	‘	'	PUNCT	_	20 come	punct
18	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 come	nsubj
19	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 come	aux
20	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	15 answered	parataxis
21	with	with	ADP	_	24 host	case
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 host	det
23	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 host	amod
24	host	host	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 come	obl
25	to	to	PART	_	26 carry	mark
26	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 come	advcl
27	off	off	ADP	_	26 carry	compound:prt
28	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 mistress	nmod:poss
29	mistress	mistress	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 carry	obj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 answered	punct
31	’	'	PUNCT	_	15 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	sound	the earl		tree rules
2	speak speech: other	past	I		to thee	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to thou=Co-Agent
3	answer speech: assert	past	the earl			vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	come	present · perfect			with a great host	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	carry off	to-infinitive		my mistress		vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mistress=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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