The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 35, sentence 17
‘We will make shields,’ answered Manawyddan.
Who acts: We · What happens: make, answer · To what, where: shields, 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 (We), 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 | _ | 4 make | punct |
| 2 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 make | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 make | aux |
| 4 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | shields | shield | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 make | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 make | punct |
| 7 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 make | punct |
| 8 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 make | parataxis |
| 9 | Manawyddan | Manawyddan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 answered | obj |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 make | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | future | We | shields | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shield=Product | ||||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | past | Manawyddan | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent manawyddan=Eventuality |
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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