The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 34, sentence 68
‘I am the husband of the Groac’h of the isle of Lok, and it is owing to her that I am here.’
Who acts: I, isle · What happens: be, owe · To what, where: husband, Lok
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 (I, isle), 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 | _ | 5 husband | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 husband | nsubj |
| 3 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 husband | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 husband | det |
| 5 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 Groac’h | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Groac’h | det |
| 8 | Groac’h | Groac'h | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 husband | nmod |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 isle | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 isle | det |
| 11 | isle | isle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 Groac’h | nmod |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 Lok | case |
| 13 | Lok | Lok | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 isle | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 owing | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 owing | cc |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 owing | nsubj |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 owing | aux |
| 18 | owing | owe | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 husband | advcl |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 her | case |
| 20 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 owing | obl |
| 21 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 24 here | mark |
| 22 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 here | nsubj |
| 23 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 here | cop |
| 24 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 18 owing | advcl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 husband | punct |
| 26 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 husband | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | I | the husband | of the Groac’h of the isle of Lok | tree rules | |||
| 2 | owe | present · progressive | isle | Lok | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent to she=Goal | ||||
| 3 | is | present | I | here property | tree rules |
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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