The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 35, sentence 13
And so greatly did the townsfolk love these saddles, that no others were bought throughout the whole of Hereford, till the saddlers banded together and resolved to slay Manawyddan and his companions.
Who acts: townsfolk, saddlers · What happens: do, love, buy, band together, resolve, slay · To what, where: saddles, others, Manawyddan
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 (townsfolk, saddlers), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 did | cc |
| 2 | so | so | ADV | _ | 4 did | advmod |
| 3 | greatly | greatly | ADV | _ | 4 did | advmod |
| 4 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 townsfolk | det |
| 6 | townsfolk | townsfolk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 love | nsubj |
| 7 | love | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 did | parataxis |
| 8 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 9 saddles | det |
| 9 | saddles | saddle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 love | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 bought | punct |
| 11 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 bought | mark |
| 12 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 13 others | det |
| 13 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 bought | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 bought | aux:pass |
| 15 | bought | buy | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 love | conj |
| 16 | throughout | throughout | ADP | _ | 18 whole | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 whole | det |
| 18 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 bought | xcomp |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 Hereford | case |
| 20 | Hereford | Hereford | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 whole | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 banded | punct |
| 22 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 25 banded | mark |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 saddlers | det |
| 24 | saddlers | saddler | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 banded | nsubj |
| 25 | banded | band | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 bought | parataxis |
| 26 | together | together | ADV | _ | 25 banded | advmod |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 resolved | cc |
| 28 | resolved | resolve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 banded | conj |
| 29 | to | to | PART | _ | 30 slay | mark |
| 30 | slay | slay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 resolved | xcomp |
| 31 | Manawyddan | Manawyddan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 slay | obj |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 companions | cc |
| 33 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 companions | nmod:poss |
| 34 | companions | companion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 Manawyddan | conj |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 did | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | greatly property | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | love | present | the townsfolk | this saddles | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer saddle=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | buy | past · passive | no others | whole property | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 4 | band together | past | the saddlers | together property | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 5 | resolve | past | the saddlers not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | slay | to-infinitive | the saddlers not said here | Manawyddan and Hereford's companions | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent manawyddan=Patient |
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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