The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 38, sentence 66
‘Tell me who thou art,’ he said, ‘for my heart warms to thee, and I feel thou art come of my blood.’
Who acts: man, I · What happens: tell, say, warm, feel · To what, where: me · 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 (man, I), 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 Tell | punct |
| 2 | Tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 said | ccomp |
| 3 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 Tell | iobj |
| 4 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 art | nsubj |
| 5 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 6 art | nsubj |
| 6 | art | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 Tell | ccomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Tell | punct |
| 8 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Tell | punct |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 said | nsubj |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 warms | punct |
| 12 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 16 warms | punct |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 heart | case |
| 14 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 heart | nmod:poss |
| 15 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 warms | obl |
| 16 | warms | warm | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 said | ccomp |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 thee | case |
| 18 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 16 warms | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 feel | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 feel | cc |
| 21 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 feel | nsubj |
| 22 | feel | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 warms | conj |
| 23 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 24 art | nsubj |
| 24 | art | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 feel | ccomp |
| 25 | come | come | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 art | obj |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 blood | case |
| 27 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 blood | nmod:poss |
| 28 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 come | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 warms | punct |
| 30 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 16 warms | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | infinitive | me | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | man | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | warm | present | for my heart; to thee | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 4 | feel | present | I | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
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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