The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 38, sentence 68
‘Then my cousin thou art in truth,’ replied Arthur, ‘and whatsoever boon thou mayest ask thou shalt receive.’
Who acts: Arthur, thou · What happens: reply, ask, receive · To what, where: boon · 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 (Arthur, thou), 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 art | punct |
| 2 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 art | advmod |
| 3 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 cousin | nmod:poss |
| 4 | cousin | cousin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 art | nsubj |
| 5 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 4 cousin | appos |
| 6 | art | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 replied | ccomp |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 truth | case |
| 8 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 art | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 art | punct |
| 10 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 art | punct |
| 11 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | Arthur | Arthur | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 replied | nsubj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 replied | punct |
| 14 | ‘ | ‘ | PUNCT | _ | 17 boon | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 boon | cc |
| 16 | whatsoever | whatsoever | ADV | _ | 17 boon | advmod |
| 17 | boon | boon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 replied | parataxis |
| 18 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 20 ask | nsubj |
| 19 | mayest | may | AUX | Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin | 20 ask | aux |
| 20 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 boon | acl:relcl |
| 21 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 23 receive | nsubj |
| 22 | shalt | shall | AUX | Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin | 23 receive | aux |
| 23 | receive | receive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 ask | ccomp |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 boon | punct |
| 25 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 17 boon | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | Arthur | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | may | thou | boon not said here | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent boon=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | receive | shall | thou | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: 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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