The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 38, sentence 49
‘If thou wilt not open the gate I will send up three shouts that shall be heard from Cornwall unto the north, and yet again to Ireland.’
Who acts: thou, I, three · What happens: not open, send up, shout, hear · To what, where: gate, that, Cornwall · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (thou, I, three), 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 | _ | 6 open | punct |
| 2 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 6 open | mark |
| 3 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 6 open | nsubj |
| 4 | wilt | will | AUX | Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin | 6 open | aux |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 open | advmod |
| 6 | open | open | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 gate | det |
| 8 | gate | gate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 open | obj |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 send | nsubj |
| 10 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 send | aux |
| 11 | send | send | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 open | conj |
| 12 | up | up | ADP | _ | 11 send | compound:prt |
| 13 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 shouts | nsubj |
| 14 | shouts | shout | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 send | parataxis |
| 15 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 18 heard | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 heard | aux |
| 17 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 18 heard | aux:pass |
| 18 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 shouts | ccomp |
| 19 | from | from | ADP | _ | 20 Cornwall | case |
| 20 | Cornwall | Cornwall | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 heard | obl |
| 21 | unto | unto | ADP | _ | 23 north | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 north | det |
| 23 | north | north | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 heard | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 again | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 again | cc |
| 26 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 27 again | advmod |
| 27 | again | again | ADV | _ | 6 open | advmod |
| 28 | to | to | ADP | _ | 29 Ireland | case |
| 29 | Ireland | Ireland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 again | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 open | punct |
| 31 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 open | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not open | future | thou | the gate | again | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location gate=Theme | |||
| 2 | send up | future | I | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | shout speech: express | present | three | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | hear | shall · passive | that | Cornwall | unto the north | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: subject=Topic from cornwall=Source |
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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