The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 38, sentence 101
‘We seek Olwen the maiden for this youth,’ answered Kai; ‘does she ever come hither so that she may be seen?’
Who acts: We, Olwen · What happens: seek, answer, come, see · To what, where: Olwen, Kai
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 38. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (We, Olwen), 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 seek | punct |
| 2 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 seek | nsubj |
| 3 | seek | seek | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | Olwen | Olwen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 seek | obj |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 maiden | det |
| 6 | maiden | maiden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 seek | xcomp |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 youth | case |
| 8 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 youth | det |
| 9 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 maiden | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 seek | punct |
| 11 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 answered | punct |
| 12 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 seek | parataxis |
| 13 | Kai | Kai | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 answered | obj |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 come | punct |
| 15 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 19 come | punct |
| 16 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 come | aux |
| 17 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 come | nsubj |
| 18 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 19 come | advmod |
| 19 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 seek | conj |
| 20 | hither | hither | ADV | _ | 19 come | advmod |
| 21 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 26 seen | mark |
| 22 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 21 so | fixed |
| 23 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 seen | nsubj |
| 24 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 seen | aux |
| 25 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 26 seen | aux:pass |
| 26 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 come | advcl |
| 27 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 seek | punct |
| 28 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 seek | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seek | present | We | Olwen | maiden property | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent olwen=Theme | |||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | past | Kai | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent kai=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | come | present · do-support | Olwen | ever | hither property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 4 | see | may · passive | Olwen | 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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