The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 38, sentence 73

It was Kai, the boldest of the warriors and the swiftest of foot--he would could pass nine nights without sleep, and nine days beneath the water--that answered him:

Who acts: end, Kilweh, that · What happens: be, pass, answer · To what, where: Kilweh

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 (end, Kilweh, that), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 boldest	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 boldest	cop
3	Kai	Kai	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 boldest	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 boldest	punct
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 boldest	det
6	boldest	bold	ADJ	Degree=Sup	root	root
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 warriors	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 warriors	det
9	warriors	warrior	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 boldest	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 swiftest	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 swiftest	det
12	swiftest	swift	ADJ	Degree=Sup	9 warriors	conj
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 foot	case
14	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 swiftest	obl
15	--	--	PUNCT	_	19 pass	punct
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 pass	nsubj
17	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 pass	aux
18	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 pass	aux
19	pass	pass	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 boldest	parataxis
20	nine	nine	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	21 nights	nummod
21	nights	night	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 pass	obj
22	without	without	ADP	_	23 sleep	case
23	sleep	sleep	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 pass	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 answered	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 answered	cc
26	nine	nine	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	27 days	nummod
27	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 answered	obl:unmarked
28	beneath	beneath	ADP	_	30 water	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 water	det
30	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 days	nmod
31	--	--	PUNCT	_	33 answered	punct
32	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	33 answered	nsubj
33	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 pass	parataxis
34	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 answered	obj
35	:	:	PUNCT	_	6 boldest	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	end			of the warriors; bold property	tree rules
2	pass	could	Kilweh		night	without sleep	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	answer speech: assert	past	that	Kilweh	day		vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent he=Eventuality

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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