The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 35, sentence 47
‘A good friend hast thou lost,’ answered Rhiannon, and she went up to the castle and through the gate, which was open.
Who acts: good friend, thou, Rhiannon, gate · What happens: have, lose, answer, go up, be · To what, where: Rhiannon
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 (good friend, thou, Rhiannon, gate), 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 hast | punct |
| 2 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 friend | det |
| 3 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 friend | amod |
| 4 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 hast | nsubj |
| 5 | hast | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 answered | advcl |
| 6 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 7 lost | nsubj |
| 7 | lost | lose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 hast | ccomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 hast | punct |
| 9 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 hast | punct |
| 10 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | Rhiannon | Rhiannon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 answered | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 went | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 went | cc |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 went | nsubj |
| 15 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 answered | conj |
| 16 | up | up | ADP | _ | 15 went | compound:prt |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 castle | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 castle | det |
| 19 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 went | obl |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 gate | cc |
| 21 | through | through | ADP | _ | 23 gate | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 gate | det |
| 23 | gate | gate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 castle | conj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 open | punct |
| 25 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 27 open | nsubj |
| 26 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 open | cop |
| 27 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 gate | acl:relcl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | a good friend | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | lose | past | thou | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | answer speech: assert | past | Rhiannon | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent rhiannon=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | go up | past | Rhiannon | to the castle and the gate | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 5 | is | past | the gate | open property | 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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