The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 38, sentence 50
‘Whatsoever clamour thou mayest make,’ spake Glewlwyd the porter, ‘thou shalt not enter until I first go and speak with Arthur.’
Who acts: clamour, thou, I · What happens: make, ', not enter, go, speak · To what, where: spake · 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 (clamour, thou, 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 | _ | 6 make | punct |
| 2 | Whatsoever | whatsoever | DET | PronType=Int | 3 clamour | det |
| 3 | clamour | clamour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 make | nsubj |
| 4 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 6 make | nsubj |
| 5 | mayest | may | AUX | Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin | 6 make | aux |
| 6 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 ’ | punct |
| 8 | ’ | ' | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 make | xcomp |
| 9 | spake | speak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 ’ | obj |
| 10 | Glewlwyd | Glewlwyd | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 spake | appos |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 porter | det |
| 12 | porter | porter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 ’ | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 enter | punct |
| 14 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 18 enter | punct |
| 15 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 18 enter | nsubj |
| 16 | shalt | shall | AUX | Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin | 18 enter | aux |
| 17 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 18 enter | advmod |
| 18 | enter | enter | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 ’ | conj |
| 19 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 22 go | mark |
| 20 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 go | nsubj |
| 21 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 22 go | advmod |
| 22 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 enter | advcl |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 speak | cc |
| 24 | speak | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 go | conj |
| 25 | with | with | ADP | _ | 26 Arthur | case |
| 26 | Arthur | Arthur | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 speak | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 make | punct |
| 28 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 make | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | may | whatsoever clamour | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | ' | infinitive | whatsoever clamour not said here | spake | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | not enter | shall | thou | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | go | present | I | first property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | speak speech: other | present | I not said here | with Arthur | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with arthur=Co-Agent |
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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