The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 39, sentence 103

Still, there is a race of beasts older than I, and I will guide you to them.’

Who acts: I, beasts · What happens: be, race · To what, where: beasts

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 (I, beasts), 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	Still	still	ADV	_	4 is	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Still	punct
3	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	4 is	expl
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 guide	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 race	det
6	race	race	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 is	nsubj
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 beasts	case
8	beasts	beast	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 race	nmod
9	older	old	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	8 beasts	amod
10	than	than	ADP	_	11 I	case
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 older	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 guide	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 guide	cc
14	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 guide	nsubj
15	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 guide	aux
16	guide	guide	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
17	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 guide	obj
18	to	to	ADP	_	19 them	case
19	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 guide	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 guide	punct
21	’	'	PUNCT	_	16 guide	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	I		beasts = beast			guide property	tree rules
2	race		beasts						nom race «event intransitive»: of=agent

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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