The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 35, sentence 126
‘If thou wilt not set it free for this, I will give thee all the horses thou seest and the seven loads of baggage.’
Who acts: thou, I · What happens: not set, give, see · To what, where: pound, horses, thee
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 (thou, 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 | _ | 14 give | punct |
| 2 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 6 set | mark |
| 3 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 6 set | nsubj |
| 4 | wilt | will | AUX | Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin | 6 set | aux |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 set | advmod |
| 6 | set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 give | advcl |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 set | obj |
| 8 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 set | xcomp |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 this | case |
| 10 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 free | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 set | punct |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 give | nsubj |
| 13 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 give | aux |
| 14 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 15 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 14 give | iobj |
| 16 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 18 horses | det:predet |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 horses | det |
| 18 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 give | obj |
| 19 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 20 seest | nsubj |
| 20 | seest | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 horses | acl:relcl |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 loads | cc |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 loads | det |
| 23 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 24 loads | nummod |
| 24 | loads | load | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 horses | conj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 baggage | case |
| 26 | baggage | baggage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 loads | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 give | punct |
| 28 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not set a condition, not said to happen | future | thou | pound | free property | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient it=Result | |||
| 2 | give | future | I | all horses and the seven loads of baggage | thee | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent thou=Recipient horse=Theme | |||
| 3 | see | present | thou | all horses and the seven loads of baggage not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer horse=Stimulus |
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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