The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 36, sentence 9
‘That I will gladly,’ answered Manawyddan, unloosing the cord from her neck, and as he did so the bishop struck her with his staff, and she turned into a young woman, the fairest that ever was seen.
Who acts: Manawyddan, bishop, wife · What happens: answer, unloose, do, strike, turn, see · To what, where: Manawyddan, cord, neck, wife, fairest, that
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, bishop, wife), 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 | _ | 8 answered | punct |
| 2 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 will | nsubj |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 will | nsubj |
| 4 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 answered | aux |
| 5 | gladly | gladly | ADV | _ | 4 will | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 will | punct |
| 7 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 will | punct |
| 8 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | Manawyddan | Manawyddan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 answered | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 unloosing | punct |
| 11 | unloosing | unloose | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 answered | advcl |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 cord | det |
| 13 | cord | cord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 unloosing | obj |
| 14 | from | from | ADP | _ | 16 neck | case |
| 15 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 neck | nmod:poss |
| 16 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 unloosing | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 struck | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 struck | cc |
| 19 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 21 did | mark |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 did | nsubj |
| 21 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 struck | advcl |
| 22 | so | so | ADV | _ | 25 struck | advmod |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 bishop | det |
| 24 | bishop | bishop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 struck | nsubj |
| 25 | struck | strike | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 answered | conj |
| 26 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 struck | obj |
| 27 | with | with | ADP | _ | 29 staff | case |
| 28 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 staff | nmod:poss |
| 29 | staff | staff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 struck | obl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 turned | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 turned | cc |
| 32 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 turned | nsubj |
| 33 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 answered | conj |
| 34 | into | into | ADP | _ | 37 woman | case |
| 35 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 37 woman | det |
| 36 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 woman | amod |
| 37 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 turned | obl |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 fairest | punct |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 fairest | det |
| 40 | fairest | fair | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 33 turned | obl |
| 41 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 44 seen | nsubj |
| 42 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 44 seen | advmod |
| 43 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 44 seen | aux:pass |
| 44 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 40 fairest | parataxis |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | future | Manawyddan | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent manawyddan=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | unloose | gerund | the cord | wife's neck | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | do | past | Manawyddan | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | strike | past | the bishop | wife | with bishop's staff | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent she=Patient with staff=Instrument | |||
| 5 | turn | past | wife | the fairest | into a young woman result | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into woman=Result | |||
| 6 | see | past · passive | that | ever | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus |
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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