The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 36, sentence 2
‘I will grant thee this boon; and thou hast done wisely to ask it, for on thy head would have lit all the trouble.
Who acts: I, thou · What happens: grant, do, ask, lit · To what, where: thee, boon, trouble, head
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 (I, thou), 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 grant | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 grant | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 grant | aux |
| 4 | grant | grant | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 4 grant | obj |
| 6 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 boon | det |
| 7 | boon | boon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 grant | obj |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 done | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 done | cc |
| 10 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 12 done | nsubj |
| 11 | hast | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 done | aux |
| 12 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 grant | parataxis |
| 13 | wisely | wisely | ADV | _ | 12 done | advmod |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 ask | mark |
| 15 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 done | advcl |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 ask | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 lit | punct |
| 18 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 24 lit | mark |
| 19 | on | on | ADP | _ | 21 head | case |
| 20 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 21 head | nmod:poss |
| 21 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 lit | obl |
| 22 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 lit | aux |
| 23 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 24 lit | aux |
| 24 | lit | lit | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 12 done | advcl |
| 25 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 27 trouble | det:predet |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 trouble | det |
| 27 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 lit | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 grant | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grant | future | I | thee | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent thou=Goal boon=Theme | ||||
| 2 | do | present · perfect | thou | wisely property | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | to-infinitive | thou not said here | boon | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | lit | would · perfect | thou not said here | all trouble | thy head | 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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