The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 37, sentence 35
‘You know, I am sure, that the korigans[FN#3: The spiteful fairies.] who dwell in the White Corn country have declared war on my people, because they say that they are the friends of man.
Who acts: You, I, korigans · What happens: know, be, dwell, declare, say · To what, where: Corn country, korigans, friends · 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, I, korigans), 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 | _ | 3 know | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 know | nsubj |
| 3 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 sure | parataxis |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 know | punct |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 sure | nsubj |
| 6 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 sure | cop |
| 7 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 declared | punct |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 30 declared | mark |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 korigans | det |
| 11 | korigans | korigan | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 declared | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 14 # | punct |
| 13 | FN | FN | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 # | compound |
| 14 | # | # | SYM | Number=Sing | 11 korigans | conj |
| 15 | 3 | 3 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 14 # | flat |
| 16 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 19 fairies | punct |
| 17 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 fairies | det |
| 18 | spiteful | spiteful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 fairies | amod |
| 19 | fairies | fairy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 korigans | conj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 korigans | punct |
| 21 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 11 korigans | punct |
| 22 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 dwell | nsubj |
| 23 | dwell | dwell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 korigans | acl:relcl |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 country | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 country | det |
| 26 | White | White | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 Corn | amod |
| 27 | Corn | Corn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 country | compound |
| 28 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 dwell | obl |
| 29 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 declared | aux |
| 30 | declared | declare | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 sure | conj |
| 31 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 declared | xcomp |
| 32 | on | on | ADP | _ | 34 people | case |
| 33 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 people | nmod:poss |
| 34 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 war | nmod |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 say | punct |
| 36 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 38 say | mark |
| 37 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 say | nsubj |
| 38 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 declared | conj |
| 39 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 43 friends | mark |
| 40 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 43 friends | nsubj |
| 41 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 43 friends | cop |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 friends | det |
| 43 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 say | ccomp |
| 44 | of | of | ADP | _ | 45 man | case |
| 45 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 friends | nmod |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 sure | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | present | You | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | is | present | I | sure property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | dwell | present | the korigans and the spiteful fairies | the Corn country | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in country=Location | ||||
| 4 | declare speech: other | present · perfect · passive | the korigans and the spiteful fairies | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Attribute | |||||
| 5 | say speech: assert | present | korigans = korigan | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | is a | present | korigans = korigan | the friends | of man | 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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