The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 35, sentence 15
But the counsels of Manawyddan prevailed, and they moved by night to another city.
Who acts: counsels · What happens: prevail, move · To what, where: city
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 (counsels), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 prevailed | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 counsels | det |
| 3 | counsels | counsel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 prevailed | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 Manawyddan | case |
| 5 | Manawyddan | Manawyddan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 counsels | nmod |
| 6 | prevailed | prevail | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 moved | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 moved | cc |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 moved | nsubj |
| 10 | moved | move | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 prevailed | conj |
| 11 | by | by | ADP | _ | 12 night | case |
| 12 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 moved | obl |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 city | case |
| 14 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 15 city | det |
| 15 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 moved | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 prevailed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | prevail | past | the counsels of Manawyddan | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | move | past | counsels = counsel | another city | night | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme to city=Trajectory |
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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