The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 37, sentence 3
‘Will you cook the wedding feast in place of me?’ he said, ‘and I will pay you well when I return from the race.’
Who acts: you, hope, I · What happens: cook, say, pay, return · To what, where: wedding feast, you, race · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 37. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, hope, 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 | _ | 4 cook | punct |
| 2 | Will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 cook | aux |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 cook | nsubj |
| 4 | cook | cook | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 said | ccomp |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 feast | det |
| 6 | wedding | wedding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 feast | compound |
| 7 | feast | feast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 cook | obj |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 place | case |
| 9 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 feast | nmod |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 me | case |
| 11 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 place | nmod |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 cook | punct |
| 13 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 cook | punct |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 said | nsubj |
| 15 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 ‘ | punct |
| 17 | ‘ | ‘ | INTJ | _ | 15 said | obj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 pay | cc |
| 19 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 pay | nsubj |
| 20 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 pay | aux |
| 21 | pay | pay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 said | conj |
| 22 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 21 pay | obj |
| 23 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 21 pay | advmod |
| 24 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 26 return | advmod |
| 25 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 return | nsubj |
| 26 | return | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 pay | advcl |
| 27 | from | from | ADP | _ | 29 race | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 race | det |
| 29 | race | race | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 return | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 said | punct |
| 31 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cook | future | you | the wedding feast | in place of me | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent feast=Patient in place=Instrument | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | hope | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | pay | future | I | you | well property | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Asset | |||
| 4 | return | present | I | the race | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from race=Initial_Location |
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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