The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 34, sentence 73
‘By delivering Houarn, who is in the power of the Groac’h.’
Who acts: Houarn · What happens: deliver, be · To what, where: Houarn, power
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 (Houarn), 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 | _ | 3 delivering | punct |
| 2 | By | by | SCONJ | _ | 3 delivering | mark |
| 3 | delivering | deliver | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | Houarn | Houarn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 delivering | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 power | punct |
| 6 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 power | nsubj |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 power | cop |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 power | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 power | det |
| 10 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 Houarn | appos |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 Groac’h | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Groac’h | det |
| 13 | Groac’h | Groac'h | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 power | nmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 delivering | punct |
| 15 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 delivering | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | deliver | gerund | Houarn | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent houarn=Patient | |||||
| 2 | is | present | Houarn | the power | of the Groac’h | 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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