The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 38, sentence 87
‘We come from Arthur the king, to seek Olwen the daughter of Yspaddaden,’ but at this news the shepherd gave a cry:
Who acts: We, shepherd · What happens: come, seek, give · To what, where: king, Arthur, Olwen, cry, news
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 (We, shepherd), 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 | _ | 3 come | punct |
| 2 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 come | nsubj |
| 3 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 5 Arthur | case |
| 5 | Arthur | Arthur | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 come | obl |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 king | det |
| 7 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 come | obl:unmarked |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 seek | punct |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 seek | mark |
| 10 | seek | seek | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 come | conj |
| 11 | Olwen | Olwen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 seek | obj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 daughter | det |
| 13 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 Olwen | appos |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 Yspaddaden | case |
| 15 | Yspaddaden | Yspaddaden | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 daughter | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 Olwen | punct |
| 17 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 Olwen | punct |
| 18 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 24 gave | cc |
| 19 | at | at | ADP | _ | 21 news | case |
| 20 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 21 news | det |
| 21 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 gave | obl |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 shepherd | det |
| 23 | shepherd | shepherd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 gave | nsubj |
| 24 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 seek | conj |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 cry | det |
| 26 | cry | cry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 gave | obj |
| 27 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 3 come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | present | We | the king | Arthur | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from arthur=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | seek | to-infinitive | We not said here | Olwen | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent olwen=Theme | ||||
| 3 | give | past | the shepherd | a cry | this news | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent cry=Theme at news=Asset |
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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