The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 34, sentence 118
Manawyddan the prince and his friend Pryderi were wanderers, for the brother of Manawyddan had been slain, and his throne taken from him.
Who acts: friend, Manawyddan · What happens: be, take · To what, where: wanderers, slain, throne
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 34. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (friend, Manawyddan), 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 | Manawyddan | Manawyddan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 slain | nsubj |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 prince | det |
| 3 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Manawyddan | appos |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 wanderers | cc |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 friend | nmod:poss |
| 6 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 wanderers | nsubj |
| 7 | Pryderi | Pryderi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 friend | appos |
| 8 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 wanderers | cop |
| 9 | wanderers | wanderer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Manawyddan | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 brother | punct |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 brother | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 brother | det |
| 13 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 slain | nsubj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 Manawyddan | case |
| 15 | Manawyddan | Manawyddan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 brother | nmod |
| 16 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 slain | aux |
| 17 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 18 slain | cop |
| 18 | slain | slain | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 throne | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 throne | cc |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 throne | nmod:poss |
| 22 | throne | throne | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 slain | appos |
| 23 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 throne | acl |
| 24 | from | from | ADP | _ | 25 him | case |
| 25 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 taken | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 slain | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Mouse's friend | wanderers | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a | past · perfect | Manawyddan and wanderers | slain | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | take | participle | Mouse's throne not said here | from Mouse | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent from he=Initial_Location |
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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