The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 38, sentence 61

‘What thou askest that shalt thou receive,’ said Arthur, ‘as far as the wind dries and the rain moistens, and the sun revolves and the sea encircles and the earth extends.

Who acts: thou, Arthur, wind, rain, sun, sea · What happens: ask, receive, say, dry, moisten, revolve · 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 (thou, Arthur, wind, rain), 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	_	4 askest	punct
2	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 askest	obj
3	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	4 askest	nsubj
4	askest	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 said	ccomp
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 receive	mark
6	shalt	shall	AUX	Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin	8 receive	aux
7	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	8 receive	nsubj
8	receive	receive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 askest	ccomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 askest	punct
10	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 askest	punct
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	Arthur	Arthur	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 said	nsubj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 far	punct
14	‘	'	PUNCT	_	16 far	punct
15	as	as	ADV	_	16 far	advmod
16	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	11 said	ccomp
17	as	as	SCONJ	_	20 dries	mark
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 wind	det
19	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 dries	nsubj
20	dries	dry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 far	advcl
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 moistens	cc
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 rain	det
23	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 moistens	nsubj
24	moistens	moisten	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 dries	conj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 revolves	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 revolves	cc
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 sun	det
28	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 revolves	nsubj
29	revolves	revolve	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 said	parataxis
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 encircles	cc
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 sea	det
32	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 encircles	nsubj
33	encircles	encircle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 revolves	conj
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 extends	cc
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 earth	det
36	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 extends	nsubj
37	extends	extend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 encircles	conj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	present	thou	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent what=Recipient clause=Topic
2	receive	shall	thou	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	say speech: assert	past	Arthur	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	dry	present	the wind	vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
5	moisten	present	the rain	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
6	revolve	present	the sun	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
7	encircle	present	the sea	vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme
8	extend	present	the earth	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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