The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 33, sentence 104
And the men answered that it was the name given to the fairy that dwelt in the lake, and that she was rich--oh! richer than all the kings in the world put together.
Who acts: men, plan, fairy · What happens: answer, be, give, dwell, put together · To what, where: name, fairy, lake, kings
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 33. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (men, plan, fairy), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 answered | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 men | det |
| 3 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 answered | nsubj |
| 4 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 name | mark |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 name | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 name | cop |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 name | det |
| 9 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 answered | obj |
| 10 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 name | acl |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 fairy | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 fairy | det |
| 13 | fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 given | obl |
| 14 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 dwelt | nsubj |
| 15 | dwelt | dwell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 fairy | acl:relcl |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 lake | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 lake | det |
| 18 | lake | lake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 dwelt | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 rich | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 rich | cc |
| 21 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 24 rich | mark |
| 22 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 rich | nsubj |
| 23 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 rich | cop |
| 24 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 answered | conj |
| 25 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 26 oh | punct |
| 26 | oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 28 richer | discourse |
| 27 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 28 richer | punct |
| 28 | richer | rich | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 24 rich | conj |
| 29 | than | than | ADP | _ | 32 kings | case |
| 30 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 32 kings | det:predet |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 kings | det |
| 32 | kings | king | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 richer | obl |
| 33 | in | in | ADP | _ | 35 world | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 world | det |
| 35 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 kings | nmod |
| 36 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 32 kings | acl |
| 37 | together | together | ADV | _ | 36 put | advmod |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | the men | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a | past | plan | the name | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | give | participle | the name not said here | the fairy | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to fairy=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | dwell | past | the fairy | the lake | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in lake=Location | ||||
| 5 | is | past | fairy | rich property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | be | fairy not said here | than all kings in the world | tree rules | |||||
| 7 | put together | participle | all kings in the world not said here | together property | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent |
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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