The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 9
‘Go then,’ said the countess, ‘and make proof of that which thou hast promised.’
Who acts: you, thou, proof · What happens: go, say, make, have, promise, proof · To what, where: countess, proof, that · 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 (you, thou, proof), 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 Go | punct |
| 2 | Go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 Go | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
| 5 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 Go | advcl |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 countess | det |
| 8 | countess | countess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 said | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 ‘ | punct |
| 10 | ‘ | ‘ | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 countess | conj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 make | cc |
| 12 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 Go | conj |
| 13 | proof | proof | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 make | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 that | case |
| 15 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 proof | nmod |
| 16 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 hast | obj |
| 17 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 18 hast | nsubj |
| 18 | hast | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 proof | acl |
| 19 | promised | promise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 hast | xcomp |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Go | punct |
| 21 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | imperative | you not said here | then | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | you not said here | the countess and ‘ | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent countess=Topic | ||||
| 3 | make | infinitive | you not said here | proof of that | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset proof=Product | ||||
| 4 | have | present | thou | proof of that | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | promise speech: promise | participle | proof of that not said here | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | proof | that | nom proof «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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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