The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 35, sentence 58
But luckily Manawyddan got word of it, and he and Kieva left the town one night and proceeded to Narberth, taking with him a sheaf of wheat, which he sowed in three plots of ground.
Who acts: Manawyddan, castle, wheat · What happens: get, leave, proceed, take, sow, word · To what, where: word, town, Narberth, sheaf, three plots, ground
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 (Manawyddan, castle, wheat), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 got | cc |
| 2 | luckily | luckily | ADV | _ | 4 got | advmod |
| 3 | Manawyddan | Manawyddan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 got | nsubj |
| 4 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 got | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 it | case |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 word | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 left | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 left | cc |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 left | nsubj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 Kieva | cc |
| 12 | Kieva | Kieva | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 he | conj |
| 13 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 got | conj |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 town | det |
| 15 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 left | obj |
| 16 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 night | nummod |
| 17 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 left | obl:unmarked |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 proceeded | cc |
| 19 | proceeded | proceed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 left | conj |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 Narberth | case |
| 21 | Narberth | Narberth | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 proceeded | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 taking | punct |
| 23 | taking | take | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 proceeded | advcl |
| 24 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 him | case |
| 25 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 taking | obl |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 sheaf | det |
| 27 | sheaf | sheaf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 taking | obj |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 wheat | case |
| 29 | wheat | wheat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 sheaf | nmod |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 sowed | punct |
| 31 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 33 sowed | nsubj |
| 32 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 sowed | nsubj |
| 33 | sowed | sow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 wheat | acl:relcl |
| 34 | in | in | ADP | _ | 36 plots | case |
| 35 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 36 plots | nummod |
| 36 | plots | plot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 sowed | obl |
| 37 | of | of | ADP | _ | 38 ground | case |
| 38 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 plots | nmod |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | Manawyddan | word of word | luckily property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer word=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | leave | past | castle | the town | night | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent town=Theme | |||
| 3 | proceed | past | castle not said here | Narberth | vn begin-55.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | take | gerund | castle not said here | a sheaf of wheat | with castle | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sheaf=Theme | |||
| 5 | sow | past | wheat | three plots of ground | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme in plot=Destination | ||||
| 6 | word | word | nom word «communication transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 7 | plot | ground | nom plot «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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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