The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 35, sentence 40
‘I will go into the castle and get tidings of the dogs,’ said Pryderi at last.
Who acts: I, Pryderi · What happens: go, get, say · To what, where: castle, tidings, last · 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 (I, Pryderi), 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 go | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 go | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 go | aux |
| 4 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 said | ccomp |
| 5 | into | into | ADP | _ | 7 castle | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 castle | det |
| 7 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 go | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 get | cc |
| 9 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 go | conj |
| 10 | tidings | tiding | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 get | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 dogs | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 dogs | det |
| 13 | dogs | dog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 tidings | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 go | punct |
| 15 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 go | punct |
| 16 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | Pryderi | Pryderi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 said | nsubj |
| 18 | at | at | ADP | _ | 19 last | case |
| 19 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 said | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | future | I | the castle | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into castle=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | get | infinitive | I not said here | tidings of the dogs | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer tiding=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | Pryderi | last | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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