The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 38, sentence 72
‘From this night to the end of the year right willingly will I grant thee,’ replied Kilweh; but when the end of the year came and the messengers returned Kilweh was wroth, and spoke rough words to Arthur.
Who acts: I, Kilweh, end, messengers · What happens: grant, reply, come, return, be, speak · To what, where: thee, rough words · 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 (I, Kilweh, end, messengers), 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 | _ | 15 grant | punct |
| 2 | From | from | ADP | _ | 4 night | case |
| 3 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 night | det |
| 4 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 grant | obl |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 end | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 end | det |
| 7 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 night | nmod |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 year | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 year | det |
| 10 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 end | nmod |
| 11 | right | right | ADV | _ | 12 willingly | advmod |
| 12 | willingly | willingly | ADV | _ | 15 grant | advmod |
| 13 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 grant | aux |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 grant | nsubj |
| 15 | grant | grant | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 replied | ccomp |
| 16 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 15 grant | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 grant | punct |
| 18 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 grant | punct |
| 19 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 20 | Kilweh | Kilweh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 replied | nsubj |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 29 came | punct |
| 22 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 29 came | cc |
| 23 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 29 came | advmod |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 end | det |
| 25 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 came | nsubj |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 year | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 year | det |
| 28 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 end | nmod |
| 29 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 replied | parataxis |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 returned | cc |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 messengers | det |
| 32 | messengers | messenger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 returned | nsubj |
| 33 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 came | conj |
| 34 | Kilweh | Kilweh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 wroth | nsubj |
| 35 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 wroth | cop |
| 36 | wroth | wroth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 returned | ccomp |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 spoke | punct |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 spoke | cc |
| 39 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 replied | parataxis |
| 40 | rough | rough | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 words | amod |
| 41 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 39 spoke | obj |
| 42 | to | to | ADP | _ | 43 Arthur | case |
| 43 | Arthur | Arthur | PROPN | Number=Sing | 41 words | nmod |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grant | future | I | thee | night | willingly property | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent thou=Theme | ||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | past | Kilweh | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | come | past | the end of the year | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | return | past | the messengers | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | is | past | Kilweh | wroth property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | speak speech: other | past | rough words | to Arthur | tree rules |
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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