The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 92
‘Behold the reward of thy blessed balsam,’ said he, as he bade the earl kneel down before her, and made him swear that he would restore all that he had taken from her.
Who acts: reward · What happens: say, bade, kneel down, make, swear, restore · To what, where: earl, reward, blessed balsam · 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 (reward), 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 | _ | 4 reward | punct |
| 2 | Behold | behold | INTJ | _ | 4 reward | discourse |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 reward | det |
| 4 | reward | reward | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 said | nsubj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 balsam | case |
| 6 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 8 balsam | nmod:poss |
| 7 | blessed | blessed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 balsam | amod |
| 8 | balsam | balsam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 reward | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 reward | punct |
| 10 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 reward | punct |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 said | nsubj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 bade | punct |
| 14 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 16 bade | mark |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 bade | nsubj |
| 16 | bade | bade | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 said | conj |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 earl | det |
| 18 | earl | earl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 bade | obj |
| 19 | kneel | kneel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 bade | xcomp |
| 20 | down | down | ADP | _ | 19 kneel | compound:prt |
| 21 | before | before | ADP | _ | 22 her | case |
| 22 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 kneel | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 made | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 made | cc |
| 25 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 said | conj |
| 26 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 made | obj |
| 27 | swear | swear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 made | xcomp |
| 28 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 31 restore | mark |
| 29 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 restore | nsubj |
| 30 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 31 restore | aux |
| 31 | restore | restore | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 swear | ccomp |
| 32 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 36 taken | det:predet |
| 33 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 36 taken | mark |
| 34 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 taken | nsubj |
| 35 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 taken | aux |
| 36 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 31 restore | ccomp |
| 37 | from | from | ADP | _ | 38 her | case |
| 38 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 taken | obl |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the reward of thy blessed balsam | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | bade | past | reward | the earl | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | kneel down | infinitive | reward not said here | before earl | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before she=Location | ||||
| 4 | make | past | the reward of thy blessed balsam not said here | reward | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | swear | infinitive | reward not said here | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 6 | restore | would | reward | tree rules | |||||
| 7 | take | past · perfect | reward | from earl | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent from she=Initial_Location | ||||
| 8 | reward | thy blessed balsam | nom reward «event 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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