The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 35, sentence 42
‘I cannot give up my dogs,’ replied Pryderi, and to the castle he went.
Who acts: I, Pryderi · What happens: not give up, reply, go · To what, where: dogs, castle · 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 | _ | 5 give | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 give | nsubj |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 give | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 give | advmod |
| 5 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 replied | ccomp |
| 6 | up | up | ADP | _ | 5 give | compound:prt |
| 7 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 dogs | nmod:poss |
| 8 | dogs | dog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 give | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 give | punct |
| 10 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 give | punct |
| 11 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | Pryderi | Pryderi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 replied | nsubj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 went | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 went | cc |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 castle | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 castle | det |
| 17 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 went | obl |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 went | nsubj |
| 19 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 replied | conj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not give up | can | I | my dogs | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dog=Source | ||||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | past | Pryderi | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | go | past | Pryderi | the castle | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to castle=Initial_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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