The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 35, sentence 109
‘Lord,’ said the priest, ‘sooner than see thee touch this reptile, I would purchase its freedom.’
Who acts: Lord, thee, I · What happens: say, see, touch, purchase · To what, where: priest, thee, reptile, freedom · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 35. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Lord, thee, I), 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 | _ | 2 Lord | punct |
| 2 | Lord | Lord | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 said | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Lord | punct |
| 4 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Lord | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 priest | det |
| 7 | priest | priest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 sooner | punct |
| 9 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 sooner | punct |
| 10 | sooner | soon | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 5 said | advmod |
| 11 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 12 see | mark |
| 12 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 sooner | advcl |
| 13 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 12 see | obj |
| 14 | touch | touch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 see | xcomp |
| 15 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 16 reptile | det |
| 16 | reptile | reptile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 touch | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 purchase | punct |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 purchase | nsubj |
| 19 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 purchase | aux |
| 20 | purchase | purchase | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 said | parataxis |
| 21 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 freedom | nmod:poss |
| 22 | freedom | freedom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 purchase | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 purchase | punct |
| 24 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 20 purchase | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Lord | the priest | soon property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent priest=Topic | |||
| 2 | see | infinitive | Lord not said here | thee | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | touch | infinitive | thee not said here | this reptile | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme reptile=Co-Theme | ||||
| 4 | purchase | would | I | reptile's freedom | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent freedom=Theme |
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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