The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 38, sentence 54
‘If walking thou didst enter here, return thou running,’ replied Arthur, ‘and let everyone that opens and shuts the eye show him respect and serve him, for it is not meet to keep such a man in the wind and rain.’
Who acts: Arthur, everyone, it · What happens: walk, do, enter, return, run, reply · To what, where: thou, eye, Arthur, man, wind · 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 (Arthur, everyone, it), 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 | _ | 5 didst | punct |
| 2 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 3 walking | mark |
| 3 | walking | walk | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 didst | advcl |
| 4 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 3 walking | obj |
| 5 | didst | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 replied | parataxis |
| 6 | enter | enter | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 didst | ccomp |
| 7 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 enter | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 return | punct |
| 9 | return | return | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 6 enter | parataxis |
| 10 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 9 return | obj |
| 11 | running | run | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 return | advcl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 didst | punct |
| 13 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 didst | punct |
| 14 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | Arthur | Arthur | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 replied | nsubj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 let | punct |
| 17 | ‘ | ‘ | PUNCT | _ | 19 let | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 let | cc |
| 19 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 replied | ccomp |
| 20 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 27 show | nsubj |
| 21 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 opens | nsubj |
| 22 | opens | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 everyone | acl:relcl |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 shuts | cc |
| 24 | shuts | shut | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 opens | conj |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 eye | det |
| 26 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 shuts | obj |
| 27 | show | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 let | parataxis |
| 28 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 show | iobj |
| 29 | respect | respect | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 show | xcomp |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 serve | cc |
| 31 | serve | serve | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 respect | conj |
| 32 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 serve | obj |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 meet | punct |
| 34 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 38 meet | mark |
| 35 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 meet | nsubj |
| 36 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 38 meet | cop |
| 37 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 38 meet | advmod |
| 38 | meet | meet | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 respect | conj |
| 39 | to | to | PART | _ | 40 keep | mark |
| 40 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 38 meet | xcomp |
| 41 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 43 man | det:predet |
| 42 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 43 man | det |
| 43 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 keep | obj |
| 44 | in | in | ADP | _ | 46 wind | case |
| 45 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 46 wind | det |
| 46 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 keep | obl |
| 47 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 48 rain | cc |
| 48 | rain | rain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 wind | conj |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 let | punct |
| 50 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 19 let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | walk a condition, not said to happen | gerund | thou | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme thou=Trajectory | |||||
| 2 | do | past | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | enter | infinitive | here | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | return | infinitive | thou | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thou=Theme | |||||
| 5 | run | gerund | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 6 | reply speech: assert | past | Arthur | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 7 | let | infinitive | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 8 | open | present | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 9 | shut | present | the eye | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent eye=Patient | |||||
| 10 | show | present | everyone | Arthur | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 11 | respect | infinitive | everyone not said here | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 12 | serve | infinitive | everyone not said here | Arthur | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Attribute | ||||
| 13 | not is | present | it | meet property | tree rules | ||||
| 14 | keep | to-infinitive | such man | the wind and rain | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent man=Theme in wind=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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