The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 38, sentence 53
‘Far have I travelled, both in this island and elsewhere, and many kingly men have I seen; but never yet have I beheld one equal in majesty to him who now stands at the door.’
Who acts: I, many kingly men, majesty · What happens: travel, have, see, behold, stand · To what, where: island, majesty, door
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 (I, many kingly men, majesty), 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 have | punct |
| 2 | Far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 have | advmod |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 beheld | aux |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 travelled | nsubj |
| 5 | travelled | travel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 have | ccomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 island | punct |
| 7 | both | both | CCONJ | _ | 10 island | cc:preconj |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 island | case |
| 9 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 island | det |
| 10 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 travelled | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 elsewhere | cc |
| 12 | elsewhere | elsewhere | ADV | _ | 10 island | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 have | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 have | cc |
| 15 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 men | amod |
| 16 | kingly | kingly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 men | amod |
| 17 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 have | nsubj |
| 18 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 island | conj |
| 19 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 seen | nsubj |
| 20 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 have | xcomp |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 have | punct |
| 22 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 25 have | cc |
| 23 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 25 have | advmod |
| 24 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 25 have | advmod |
| 25 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 beheld | aux |
| 26 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 27 beheld | nsubj |
| 27 | beheld | behold | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 28 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 29 equal | nummod |
| 29 | equal | equal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 beheld | xcomp |
| 30 | in | in | ADP | _ | 31 majesty | case |
| 31 | majesty | majesty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 beheld | obl |
| 32 | to | to | ADP | _ | 33 him | case |
| 33 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 majesty | nmod |
| 34 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 36 stands | nsubj |
| 35 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 36 stands | advmod |
| 36 | stands | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 majesty | acl:relcl |
| 37 | at | at | ADP | _ | 39 door | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 door | det |
| 39 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 stands | obl |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 27 beheld | punct |
| 41 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 27 beheld | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | travel | past | I | this island | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in island=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | have | present | many kingly men | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | see | participle | I | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | behold | present · perfect | I | majesty to man | equal property | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer | |||
| 5 | stand | present | majesty to man | the door | now | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at door=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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