The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 35, sentence 46
‘Where are thy friend and thy dogs?’ said Rhiannon, and he told her what had befallen Pryderi.
Who acts: friend · What happens: be, say, tell, befall · To what, where: friend, Rhiannon, Pryderi · 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 (friend), 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 friend | punct |
| 2 | Where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 5 friend | advmod |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 friend | cop |
| 4 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 5 friend | nmod:poss |
| 5 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 said | nsubj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 dogs | cc |
| 7 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 8 dogs | nmod:poss |
| 8 | dogs | dog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 friend | conj |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 friend | punct |
| 10 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 friend | punct |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | Rhiannon | Rhiannon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 said | nsubj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 told | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 told | cc |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 told | nsubj |
| 16 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 said | conj |
| 17 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 told | iobj |
| 18 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 20 befallen | nsubj:pass |
| 19 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 befallen | aux |
| 20 | befallen | befall | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 told | ccomp |
| 21 | Pryderi | Pryderi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 befallen | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | thy friend and thy dogs | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | thy friend and thy dogs | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | past | friend | Rhiannon | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | befall | past · perfect · passive | Pryderi | tree rules |
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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