The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 36, sentence 14

‘Pryderi has had the knockers of the gate of my palace hung about him, and Rhiannon has carried the collars of my asses around her neck,’ said the bishop with a smile.

Who acts: Pryderi, knockers · What happens: have, hang, carry, say · To what, where: Rhiannon, bishop · 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 (Pryderi, knockers), 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	_	4 had	punct
2	Pryderi	Pryderi	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 had	nsubj
3	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 had	aux
4	had	have	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	31 said	ccomp
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 knockers	det
6	knockers	knocker	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 hung	nsubj
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 gate	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 gate	det
9	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 knockers	nmod
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 palace	case
11	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 palace	nmod:poss
12	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 gate	nmod
13	hung	hang	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 had	parataxis
14	about	about	ADP	_	15 him	case
15	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 hung	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 carried	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 carried	cc
18	Rhiannon	Rhiannon	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 carried	nsubj:pass
19	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 carried	aux
20	carried	carry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 had	conj
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 collars	det
22	collars	collar	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 carried	obj
23	of	of	ADP	_	25 asses	case
24	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 asses	nmod:poss
25	asses	ass	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 collars	nmod
26	around	around	ADP	_	28 neck	case
27	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 neck	nmod:poss
28	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 asses	nmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 had	punct
30	’	'	PUNCT	_	31 said	punct
31	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 bishop	det
33	bishop	bishop	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 said	obj
34	with	with	ADP	_	36 smile	case
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 smile	det
36	smile	smile	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 bishop	nmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	31 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	present · perfect	Pryderi			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	hang	past	the knockers of the gate of my palace		about Pryderi	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent about he=Location
3	carry	present · perfect · passive		Rhiannon		vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary collar=Value
4	say speech: assert	past		the bishop	with a smile	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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