The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 38, sentence 71

‘O Kilweh,’ said Arthur, ‘never have I heard of the maiden of whom thou speakest, nor of her kindred, but I will send messengers to seek her if thou wilt give me time.’

Who acts: Kilweh, I, thou · What happens: say, hear, speak, send, seek, give · To what, where: messengers, earth, 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 (Kilweh, I, 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 said	punct
2	O	o	INTJ	_	6 said	discourse
3	Kilweh	Kilweh	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 said	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 Kilweh	punct
5	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 Kilweh	punct
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	Arthur	Arthur	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 said	nsubj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct
9	‘	'	PUNCT	_	13 heard	punct
10	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	11 have	advmod
11	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 heard	aux
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 heard	nsubj
13	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 said	conj
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 maiden	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 maiden	det
16	maiden	maiden	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 heard	obl
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 whom	case
18	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 maiden	nmod
19	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	20 speakest	nsubj
20	speakest	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 whom	acl:relcl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 kindred	punct
22	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	25 kindred	cc
23	of	of	SCONJ	_	25 kindred	mark
24	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 kindred	nmod:poss
25	kindred	kindred	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 heard	conj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 send	punct
27	but	but	CCONJ	_	30 send	cc
28	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	30 send	nsubj
29	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 send	aux
30	send	send	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 kindred	conj
31	messengers	messenger	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 send	obj
32	to	to	PART	_	33 seek	mark
33	seek	seek	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 send	advcl
34	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 seek	obj
35	if	if	SCONJ	_	38 give	mark
36	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	38 give	nsubj
37	wilt	will	AUX	Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin	38 give	aux
38	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 seek	advcl
39	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	38 give	iobj
40	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 give	obj
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct
42	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Kilweh					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	hear	present · perfect	I				of the maiden	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of maiden=Stimulus
3	speak speech: other	present	thou					vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	send	future	I	messengers				vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent messenger=Theme
5	seek	to-infinitive	I not said here	earth				vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme
6	give a condition, not said to happen	future	thou		me	time		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme

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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