The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 35, sentence 4
And Manawyddan found that Pryderi had spoken the truth concerning his mother, and asked if she would take him for her husband.
Who acts: Manawyddan, truth · What happens: find, speak, concern, ask, take · To what, where: Pryderi, mother · 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 (Manawyddan, truth), 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 | _ | 3 found | cc |
| 2 | Manawyddan | Manawyddan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 found | nsubj |
| 3 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 spoken | mark |
| 5 | Pryderi | Pryderi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 spoken | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 spoken | aux |
| 7 | spoken | speak | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 found | ccomp |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 truth | det |
| 9 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 spoken | obj |
| 10 | concerning | concern | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 truth | acl |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 mother | nmod:poss |
| 12 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 concerning | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 asked | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 asked | cc |
| 15 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 found | conj |
| 16 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 19 take | mark |
| 17 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 take | nsubj |
| 18 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 take | aux |
| 19 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 asked | ccomp |
| 20 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 take | obj |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 23 husband | case |
| 22 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 husband | nmod:poss |
| 23 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 take | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | past | Manawyddan | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | speak speech: other | past · perfect · passive | Pryderi | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | concern | gerund | the truth not said here | Pryderi's mother | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus mother=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | ask speech: ask | past | Manawyddan not said here | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | take a condition, not said to happen | would | Manawyddan | Pryderi | for Manawyddan's husband | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent he=Theme for husband=Beneficiary |
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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