The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 35, sentence 129
‘The spell must be taken off Rhiannon and Pryderi,’ said Manawyddan.
Who acts: Manawyddan · What happens: take off, say · To what, where: spell · 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 (Manawyddan), 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 | _ | 6 taken | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 spell | det |
| 3 | spell | spell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 taken | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 taken | aux |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 taken | aux:pass |
| 6 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 said | ccomp |
| 7 | off | off | ADP | _ | 6 taken | compound:prt |
| 8 | Rhiannon | Rhiannon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 taken | obj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 Pryderi | cc |
| 10 | Pryderi | Pryderi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Rhiannon | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 taken | punct |
| 12 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | Manawyddan | Manawyddan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 said | nsubj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take off | must · passive | the spell | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Manawyddan | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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