The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 38, sentence 63

‘I would that thou bless my hair,’ spake Kilweh, and Arthur answered:

Who acts: I, Arthur · What happens: bless, speak, answer · To what, where: hair, Kilweh · 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 (I, Arthur), 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	_	6 bless	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 bless	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 bless	aux
4	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 bless	nsubj
5	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	6 bless	nsubj
6	bless	bless	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 answered	advcl
7	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 hair	nmod:poss
8	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bless	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 spake	punct
10	’	'	X	Foreign=Yes	11 spake	dep
11	spake	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 bless	conj
12	Kilweh	Kilweh	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 spake	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 answered	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 answered	cc
15	Arthur	Arthur	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 answered	nsubj
16	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	:	:	PUNCT	_	16 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	bless	would	I	my hair	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hair=Theme
2	speak speech: other	infinitive	I not said here	Kilweh	tree rules
3	answer speech: assert	past	Arthur		vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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