The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 36, sentence 10
‘Look around upon thy land,’ said he, ‘and thou wilt see it all tilled and peopled, as it was long ago.’
Who acts: bishop, thou, land · What happens: look around, say, see, till, people, be · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 36. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bishop, thou, land), 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 | _ | 2 Look | punct |
| 2 | Look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 said | ccomp |
| 3 | around | around | ADV | _ | 2 Look | advmod |
| 4 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 6 land | case |
| 5 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 6 land | nmod:poss |
| 6 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Look | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Look | punct |
| 8 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Look | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 said | nsubj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 he | punct |
| 12 | ‘ | ‘ | PUNCT | _ | 16 see | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 see | cc |
| 14 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 16 see | nsubj |
| 15 | wilt | will | AUX | Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin | 16 see | aux |
| 16 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 said | ccomp |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 tilled | nsubj |
| 18 | all | all | ADV | _ | 19 tilled | advmod |
| 19 | tilled | till | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 see | ccomp |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 peopled | cc |
| 21 | peopled | people | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 tilled | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 ago | punct |
| 23 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 27 ago | mark |
| 24 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 ago | nsubj |
| 25 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 ago | cop |
| 26 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 27 ago | advmod |
| 27 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 21 peopled | advmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 see | punct |
| 29 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 16 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look around | infinitive | upon thy land; around property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent upon land=Theme | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | bishop | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | see | future | thou | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | till | past | land | all property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | people | past | land not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | is | past | land | ago, long 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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