The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 38, sentence 69
‘The boon I crave is that thou mayest win for me Olwen, the daughter of Yspaddaden Penkawr, and this boon I seek likewise at the hands of thy warriors.
Who acts: I, boon · What happens: crave, be, seek · To what, where: boon, hands
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, boon), 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 | _ | 10 win | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 boon | det |
| 3 | boon | boon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 win | nsubj |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 crave | nsubj |
| 5 | crave | crave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 boon | acl:relcl |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 win | cop |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 win | mark |
| 8 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 10 win | nsubj |
| 9 | mayest | may | AUX | Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin | 10 win | aux |
| 10 | win | win | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 me | case |
| 12 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 win | obl |
| 13 | Olwen | Olwen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 win | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 daughter | punct |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 daughter | det |
| 16 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 Olwen | appos |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 Yspaddaden | case |
| 18 | Yspaddaden | Yspaddaden | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 daughter | nmod |
| 19 | Penkawr | Penkawr | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Yspaddaden | flat |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 seek | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 seek | cc |
| 22 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 23 boon | det |
| 23 | boon | boon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 seek | obl |
| 24 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 seek | nsubj |
| 25 | seek | seek | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 win | conj |
| 26 | likewise | likewise | ADV | _ | 25 seek | advmod |
| 27 | at | at | ADP | _ | 29 hands | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 hands | det |
| 29 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 seek | obl |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 warriors | case |
| 31 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 32 warriors | nmod:poss |
| 32 | warriors | warrior | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 hands | nmod |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 win | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | crave | present | I | the boon not said here | vn want-32.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot boon=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | may · present | the boon | for me; win property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | seek | present | I | this boon | the hands of thy warriors | likewise property | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent at hand=Location |
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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