The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 38, sentence 83
‘All the world knows that this is the castle of Yspaddaden Penkawr.’
Who acts: world, this · What happens: know, be · To what, where: castle · 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 (world, this), 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 | _ | 5 knows | punct |
| 2 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 world | det:predet |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 world | det |
| 4 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 knows | nsubj |
| 5 | knows | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 castle | mark |
| 7 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 castle | nsubj |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 castle | cop |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 castle | det |
| 10 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 knows | ccomp |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 Yspaddaden | case |
| 12 | Yspaddaden | Yspaddaden | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 castle | nmod |
| 13 | Penkawr | Penkawr | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Yspaddaden | flat |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 knows | punct |
| 15 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 knows | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | present | all world | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | is a | present | this | the castle | of Yspaddaden | 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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