The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 38, sentence 56

‘Greeting unto thee, O ruler of this land,’ cried he, ‘and greeting no less to the lowest than to the highest.’

Who acts: Glewlwyd · What happens: greet, cry · To what, where: ruler, less · 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 (Glewlwyd), 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	_	2 Greeting	punct
2	Greeting	greet	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	13 cried	ccomp
3	unto	unto	ADP	_	4 thee	case
4	thee	thou	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	2 Greeting	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 ruler	punct
6	O	o	INTJ	_	7 ruler	discourse
7	ruler	ruler	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Greeting	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 land	case
9	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	10 land	det
10	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 ruler	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Greeting	punct
12	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Greeting	punct
13	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 cried	nsubj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 greeting	punct
16	‘	‘	PUNCT	_	18 greeting	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 greeting	cc
18	greeting	greet	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 cried	advcl
19	no	no	ADV	_	20 less	advmod
20	less	less	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	18 greeting	obj
21	to	to	ADP	_	23 lowest	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 lowest	det
23	lowest	low	ADJ	Degree=Sup	20 less	obl
24	than	than	ADP	_	27 highest	case
25	to	to	ADP	_	27 highest	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 highest	det
27	highest	high	ADJ	Degree=Sup	23 lowest	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 greeting	punct
29	’	'	PUNCT	_	18 greeting	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	greet speech: greet	gerund		ruler of this land	unto thee	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	cry speech: express	past	Glewlwyd			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	greet speech: greet	gerund	Glewlwyd not said here	less		vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent less=Theme

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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