The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 35, sentence 19

‘We will try it,’ said Manawyddan, and they began to make shields, and fashioned them after the shape of the shields they had seen; and these likewise they enamelled.

Who acts: We, Manawyddan, shields, these · What happens: try, say, begin, make, see, enamell · To what, where: craft, fashioned, shields · 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 (We, Manawyddan, shields, these), 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 try	punct
2	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 try	nsubj
3	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 try	aux
4	try	try	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 said	ccomp
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 try	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 try	punct
7	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 try	punct
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	Manawyddan	Manawyddan	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 said	nsubj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 began	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 began	cc
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 began	nsubj
13	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 said	parataxis
14	to	to	PART	_	15 make	mark
15	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 began	xcomp
16	shields	shield	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 make	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 fashioned	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 fashioned	cc
19	fashioned	fashioned	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 began	obl
20	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 fashioned	nsubj
21	after	after	ADP	_	23 shape	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 shape	det
23	shape	shape	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 began	obl
24	of	of	ADP	_	26 shields	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 shields	det
26	shields	shield	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 shape	nmod
27	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 seen	nsubj
28	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 seen	aux
29	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	26 shields	acl:relcl
30	;	;	PUNCT	_	35 enamelled	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 enamelled	cc
32	these	this	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	35 enamelled	nsubj
33	likewise	likewise	ADV	_	35 enamelled	advmod
34	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 enamelled	nsubj
35	enamelled	enamell	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 said	conj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	try	future	We	craft			vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality
2	say speech: assert	past	Manawyddan				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	begin	past	shields = shield	fashioned	after the shape of the shields		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	make	to-infinitive	shields = shield not said here	shields			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset shield=Product
5	see	past · perfect	shields = shield	the shields not said here			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer shield=Stimulus
6	enamell	past	these			likewise property	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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