The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 35, sentence 137

‘To despoil thee,’ replied the bishop, ‘for it is I who cast the charm over thy lands, to avenge Gwawl the son of Clud my friend.

Who acts: spell, I · What happens: despoil, reply, be, cast, avenge · To what, where: thee, bishop, charm, lands, Gwawl · 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 (spell, 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	_	3 despoil	punct
2	To	to	PART	_	3 despoil	mark
3	despoil	despoil	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 replied	ccomp
4	thee	thou	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	3 despoil	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 despoil	punct
6	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 despoil	punct
7	replied	reply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 bishop	det
9	bishop	bishop	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 replied	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 cast	punct
11	‘	'	PUNCT	_	17 cast	punct
12	for	for	ADP	_	15 I	case
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 I	nsubj
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 I	cop
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 cast	nsubj
16	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 cast	nsubj
17	cast	cast	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 replied	parataxis
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 charm	det
19	charm	charm	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 cast	obj
20	over	over	ADP	_	22 lands	case
21	thy	thy	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch	22 lands	nmod:poss
22	lands	land	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 cast	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 avenge	punct
24	to	to	PART	_	25 avenge	mark
25	avenge	avenge	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	17 cast	conj
26	Gwawl	Gwawl	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 avenge	obj
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 son	det
28	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 avenge	obj
29	of	of	ADP	_	30 Clud	case
30	Clud	Clud	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 son	nmod
31	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 friend	nmod:poss
32	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 avenge	advcl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 replied	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	despoil	to-infinitive		thee			vn deprive-10.6.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thou=Source
2	reply speech: assert	past		the bishop			tree rules
3	is	present	spell			for I	tree rules
4	cast	present	I	the charm	thy lands		vn throw-17.1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent charm=Theme over land=Destination
5	avenge	to-infinitive	I not said here	Gwawl			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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