The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 32, sentence 15

‘In truth he is a good knight, and had he but known that the maid was in peril he would have come to save her,’ said Owen; ‘but accept me in his stead, I entreat you.’

Who acts: sign, maid, Owen, I · What happens: be, have, know, come, save, say · To what, where: good knight, truth, sign, peril, maid, me · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 32. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sign, maid, Owen, I), 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	_	8 knight	punct
2	In	in	ADP	_	3 truth	case
3	truth	truth	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 knight	obl
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 knight	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 knight	cop
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 knight	det
7	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 knight	amod
8	knight	knight	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 said	ccomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 had	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 had	cc
11	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 knight	parataxis
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 had	obj
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 known	cc
14	known	know	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 had	conj
15	that	that	SCONJ	_	20 peril	mark
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 maid	det
17	maid	maid	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 peril	nsubj
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 peril	cop
19	in	in	ADP	_	20 peril	case
20	peril	peril	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 known	xcomp
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 come	nsubj
22	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 come	aux
23	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	24 come	aux
24	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	20 peril	acl:relcl
25	to	to	PART	_	26 save	mark
26	save	save	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 come	xcomp
27	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 save	obj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 knight	punct
29	’	'	PUNCT	_	30 said	punct
30	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
31	Owen	Owen	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 said	nsubj
32	;	;	PUNCT	_	35 accept	punct
33	‘	'	PUNCT	_	35 accept	punct
34	but	but	CCONJ	_	35 accept	cc
35	accept	accept	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 said	ccomp
36	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	35 accept	obj
37	in	in	ADP	_	39 stead	case
38	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 stead	nmod:poss
39	stead	stead	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 accept	obl
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 entreat	punct
41	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	42 entreat	nsubj
42	entreat	entreat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	35 accept	parataxis
43	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	42 entreat	obj
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	35 accept	punct
45	’	'	PUNCT	_	35 accept	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	is a	present	sign	a good knight		truth	tree rules
2	have	past		sign			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient
3	know	participle					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	is	past	the maid			peril	tree rules
5	come	would · perfect	sign	peril not said here			tree rules
6	save	to-infinitive	sign not said here	maid			vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme
7	say speech: assert	past	Owen				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
8	accept	infinitive		me		sign's stead	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme
9	entreat	present	I		you		vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient

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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