The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 38, sentence 58
‘Sit thou between two of my warriors, and thou shalt have minstrels before thee and all that belongs to one born to be a king, while thou remainest in my palace.’
Who acts: you, thou, that · What happens: sit, have, belong, bear, be, remain · To what, where: thou, two, minstrels, one, king, palace
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 (you, thou, that), 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 Sit | punct |
| 2 | Sit | sit | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 2 Sit | obj |
| 4 | between | between | ADP | _ | 5 two | case |
| 5 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 Sit | obl |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 warriors | case |
| 7 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 warriors | nmod:poss |
| 8 | warriors | warrior | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 two | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 have | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 have | cc |
| 11 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 13 have | nsubj |
| 12 | shalt | shall | AUX | Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin | 13 have | aux |
| 13 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 Sit | conj |
| 14 | minstrels | minstrel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 have | obj |
| 15 | before | before | ADP | _ | 16 thee | case |
| 16 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 13 have | obl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 belongs | cc |
| 18 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 20 belongs | det:predet |
| 19 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 belongs | nsubj |
| 20 | belongs | belong | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 Sit | conj |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 one | case |
| 22 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 20 belongs | obl |
| 23 | born | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 one | acl |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 king | mark |
| 25 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 27 king | cop |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 king | det |
| 27 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 born | advcl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 remainest | punct |
| 29 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 31 remainest | mark |
| 30 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 31 remainest | nsubj |
| 31 | remainest | remain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 Sit | parataxis |
| 32 | in | in | ADP | _ | 34 palace | case |
| 33 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 palace | nmod:poss |
| 34 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 remainest | obl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Sit | punct |
| 36 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Sit | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | imperative | you not said here | thou | two of my warriors | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent thou=Theme between two=Location | |||
| 2 | have | shall | thou | minstrels | before thee | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent minstrel=Patient | |||
| 3 | belong | present | that | one | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | bear | participle | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 5 | is a | to-infinitive | a king | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | remain | present | thou | my palace | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in palace=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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