The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 38, sentence 67
‘I am Kilweh, son of Kilydd,’ replied the youth.
Who acts: I, Kilweh · What happens: be, reply · To what, where: Kilweh, youth
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, Kilweh), 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 Kilweh | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 Kilweh | nsubj |
| 3 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 Kilweh | cop |
| 4 | Kilweh | Kilweh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 replied | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 son | punct |
| 6 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 Kilweh | appos |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 Kilydd | case |
| 8 | Kilydd | Kilydd | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 son | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 Kilweh | punct |
| 10 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 Kilweh | punct |
| 11 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 youth | det |
| 13 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 replied | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | I | Kilweh | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | past | Kilweh | the youth | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent youth=Topic |
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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