The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 36, sentence 4
‘I will not set her free till Pryderi and Rhiannon are with me.’
Who acts: I · What happens: not set, be · To what, where: free
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), 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 | _ | 5 set | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 set | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 set | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 set | advmod |
| 5 | set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 free | nmod:poss |
| 7 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 set | obj |
| 8 | till | till | ADP | _ | 9 Pryderi | case |
| 9 | Pryderi | Pryderi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 set | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 Rhiannon | cc |
| 11 | Rhiannon | Rhiannon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Pryderi | conj |
| 12 | are | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 set | conj |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 me | case |
| 14 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 are | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 set | punct |
| 16 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 set | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not set | future | I | wife's free | till Pryderi and Rhiannon | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient free=Result | |||
| 2 | be | present | I not said here | with me | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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