The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 35, sentence 28
And the craftsmen were wroth, and banded together to slay them.
Who acts: craftsmen · What happens: be, band together, slay · To what, where: craftsmen
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 (craftsmen), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 wroth | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 craftsmen | det |
| 3 | craftsmen | craftsman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 wroth | nsubj |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 wroth | cop |
| 5 | wroth | wroth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 banded | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 banded | cc |
| 8 | banded | band | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 wroth | conj |
| 9 | together | together | ADV | _ | 8 banded | advmod |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 slay | mark |
| 11 | slay | slay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 banded | advcl |
| 12 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 slay | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 wroth | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the craftsmen | wroth property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | band together | participle | the craftsmen not said here | together property | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | slay | to-infinitive | the craftsmen not said here | craftsmen = craftsman | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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