The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 35, sentence 29
‘Pryderi,’ said Manawyddan, when he had received news of it, ‘we will not remain in England any longer.
Who acts: Pryderi, we · What happens: say, receive, not remain · To what, where: England · 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 (Pryderi, 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 | _ | 2 Pryderi | punct |
| 2 | Pryderi | Pryderi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 said | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Pryderi | punct |
| 4 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Pryderi | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | Manawyddan | Manawyddan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 said | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 news | punct |
| 8 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 11 received | advmod |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 received | nsubj |
| 10 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 received | aux |
| 11 | received | receive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 12 news | amod |
| 12 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 Manawyddan | appos |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 it | case |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 news | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 remain | punct |
| 16 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 20 remain | punct |
| 17 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 remain | nsubj |
| 18 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 remain | aux |
| 19 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 remain | advmod |
| 20 | remain | remain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 said | ccomp |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 England | case |
| 22 | England | England | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 remain | obl |
| 23 | any | any | ADV | _ | 24 longer | advmod |
| 24 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 20 remain | advmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Pryderi | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | receive | past · perfect | Pryderi | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | not remain | future | we | England | long property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in england=Location |
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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