The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 35, sentence 144
I have told thee who she is; so now set her free.’
Who acts: I, wife · What happens: tell, be, set · To what, where: thee, free · 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 (I, wife), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 told | nsubj |
| 2 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 told | aux |
| 3 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 3 told | iobj |
| 5 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 3 told | obj |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 is | nsubj |
| 7 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 who | acl:relcl |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 set | punct |
| 9 | so | so | ADV | _ | 11 set | advmod |
| 10 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 11 set | advmod |
| 11 | set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 told | ccomp |
| 12 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 free | nmod:poss |
| 13 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 set | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 set | punct |
| 15 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 set | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | present · perfect | I | thee | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | present | wife | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | set | infinitive | wife's free | now | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient free=Result |
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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