The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 35, sentence 41
‘Truly,’ answered Manawyddan, ‘thou wouldst do unwisely, for whosoever has cast a spell over this land has set this castle here.’
Who acts: thou · What happens: answer, do, cast, set · To what, where: Manawyddan, whosoever, spell
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 (thou), 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 | _ | 5 answered | punct |
| 2 | Truly | truly | ADV | _ | 5 answered | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Truly | punct |
| 4 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 answered | punct |
| 5 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | Manawyddan | Manawyddan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 answered | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 do | punct |
| 8 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 do | punct |
| 9 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 11 do | nsubj |
| 10 | wouldst | would | AUX | Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin | 11 do | aux |
| 11 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 answered | conj |
| 12 | unwisely | unwisely | ADV | _ | 11 do | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 cast | punct |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 whosoever | case |
| 15 | whosoever | whosoever | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 cast | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 cast | aux |
| 17 | cast | cast | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 set | advcl |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 spell | det |
| 19 | spell | spell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 set | nsubj:pass |
| 20 | over | over | ADP | _ | 22 land | case |
| 21 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 22 land | det |
| 22 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 spell | nmod |
| 23 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 set | aux |
| 24 | set | set | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 do | advcl |
| 25 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 26 castle | det |
| 26 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 set | obj |
| 27 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 24 set | advmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 answered | punct |
| 29 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | Manawyddan | truly property | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent manawyddan=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | do | would | thou | unwisely property | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | cast | present · perfect · passive | whosoever | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Product | |||||
| 4 | set | present · perfect · passive | a spell over this land | here | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme castle=Destination |
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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