The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 36, sentence 6
Then Manawyddan held out his hands and greeted Pryderi and Rhiannon, and they seated themselves joyfully on the grass.
Who acts: Manawyddan, hands · What happens: hold out, greet, seat · To what, where: hands, Pryderi, grass
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 (Manawyddan, hands), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 held | advmod |
| 2 | Manawyddan | Manawyddan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 held | nsubj |
| 3 | held | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | out | out | ADP | _ | 3 held | compound:prt |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 hands | nmod:poss |
| 6 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 held | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 greeted | cc |
| 8 | greeted | greet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 held | conj |
| 9 | Pryderi | Pryderi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 greeted | obj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 Rhiannon | cc |
| 11 | Rhiannon | Rhiannon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Pryderi | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 seated | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 seated | cc |
| 14 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 seated | nsubj |
| 15 | seated | seat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 held | conj |
| 16 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 15 seated | obj |
| 17 | joyfully | joyfully | ADV | _ | 15 seated | advmod |
| 18 | on | on | ADP | _ | 20 grass | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 grass | det |
| 20 | grass | grass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 seated | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 held | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hold out | past | Manawyddan | Manawyddan's hands | then | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme | |||
| 2 | greet speech: greet | past | Manawyddan not said here | Pryderi and Rhiannon | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pryderi=Theme | ||||
| 3 | seat | past | hands = hand | hands = hand | the grass | joyfully property | vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»: agent=Location themselves=Value |
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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