The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 35, sentence 24
‘But I know,’ replied Manawyddan, ‘and I will teach thee to stitch.
Who acts: I, thee · What happens: know, reply, teach, stitch · To what, where: Manawyddan, thee
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, thee), 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 know | punct |
| 2 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 know | cc |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 know | nsubj |
| 4 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 replied | parataxis |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 know | punct |
| 6 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 know | punct |
| 7 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | Manawyddan | Manawyddan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 replied | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 ‘ | punct |
| 10 | ‘ | ‘ | INTJ | _ | 8 Manawyddan | discourse |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 teach | cc |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 teach | nsubj |
| 13 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 teach | aux |
| 14 | teach | teach | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 replied | conj |
| 15 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 14 teach | obj |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 stitch | mark |
| 17 | stitch | stitch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 teach | xcomp |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | present | I | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | past | Manawyddan | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent manawyddan=Topic | |||||
| 3 | teach speech: other | future | I | thee | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent thou=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | stitch | to-infinitive | thee not said here | vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
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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