The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 35, sentence 65

‘To-night I will watch here,’ thought he, ‘for whosoever carried off the other corn will in like manner take this, and I will know who it is.’

Who acts: I, whosoever, castle, corn · What happens: watch, think, carry off, in, take, know · To what, where: other corn, this · 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, whosoever, castle, corn), 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	_	7 watch	punct
2	To	to	ADP	_	4 night	case
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 To	punct
4	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 watch	obl
5	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 watch	nsubj
6	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 watch	aux
7	watch	watch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 thought	ccomp
8	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 watch	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 watch	punct
10	’	'	PUNCT	_	7 watch	punct
11	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 take	nsubj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 he	punct
14	‘	'	PUNCT	_	23 in	punct
15	for	for	SCONJ	_	17 carried	mark
16	whosoever	whosoever	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 carried	nsubj
17	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 in	advcl
18	off	off	ADP	_	21 corn	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 corn	det
20	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 corn	amod
21	corn	corn	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 carried	obl
22	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 in	aux
23	in	in	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 he	conj
24	like	like	ADP	_	25 manner	case
25	manner	manner	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 in	obl
26	take	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 thought	ccomp
27	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	26 take	obj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 know	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 know	cc
30	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	32 know	nsubj
31	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 know	aux
32	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 take	conj
33	who	who	PRON	PronType=Int	32 know	ccomp
34	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 who	nsubj
35	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 who	cop
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 thought	punct
37	’	'	PUNCT	_	11 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	watch	future	I		here	night		vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent
2	think speech: other	past						vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	carry off	past	whosoever	the other corn				vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent corn=Theme
4	in	future	castle not said here				like manner	tree rules
5	take	present	castle	this				vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Theme
6	know	future	I					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
7	is a	present	corn					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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