The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 34, sentence 119
Very sorrowful was Manawyddan, but Pryderi was stout of heart, and bade him be of good cheer, as he knew a way out of his trouble.
Who acts: sorrowful Manawyddan, bade · What happens: be, know, trouble · To what, where: sorrowful Manawyddan, way, trouble
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 (sorrowful Manawyddan, bade), 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 | Very | very | ADV | _ | 2 sorrowful | advmod |
| 2 | sorrowful | sorrowful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 Manawyddan | amod |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 Manawyddan | cop |
| 4 | Manawyddan | Manawyddan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 cheer | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 stout | punct |
| 6 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 stout | cc |
| 7 | Pryderi | Pryderi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 stout | compound |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 stout | cop |
| 9 | stout | stout | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 Manawyddan | appos |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 heart | case |
| 11 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 stout | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 bade | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 bade | cc |
| 14 | bade | bade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 Manawyddan | conj |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 bade | obj |
| 16 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 19 cheer | cop |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 cheer | case |
| 18 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 cheer | amod |
| 19 | cheer | cheer | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 knew | punct |
| 21 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 23 knew | mark |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 knew | nsubj |
| 23 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 cheer | conj |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 way | det |
| 25 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 knew | obj |
| 26 | out | out | ADP | _ | 29 trouble | case |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 trouble | case |
| 28 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 trouble | nmod:poss |
| 29 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 knew | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 cheer | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | sorrowful Manawyddan and bade | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | is | past | of heart; stout property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | is | infinitive | sorrowful Manawyddan and bade | of good cheer | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | know | past | bade | a way | bade's trouble | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer way=Stimulus | |||
| 5 | trouble | bade | nom trouble «cognition transitive»: poss=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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