The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 39, sentence 1
‘We pledge it,’ said they, and the maiden came.
Who acts: We, they, maiden · What happens: pledge, say, come · To what, where: it · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 39. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (We, they, maiden), 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 pledge | punct |
| 2 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 pledge | nsubj |
| 3 | pledge | pledge | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 said | ccomp |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 pledge | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 pledge | punct |
| 6 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 pledge | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 said | nsubj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 came | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 came | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 maiden | det |
| 12 | maiden | maiden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 came | nsubj |
| 13 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 said | conj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pledge | present | We | it | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | they | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | come | past | the maiden | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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