The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 39, sentence 119
Then I summoned all my kindred to destroy him, but he made peace with me, and I took fifty fish spears from his back.
Who acts: I, Llyw · What happens: summon, destroy, make, take, spear · To what, where: Llyw, peace, fifty fish, back
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, Llyw), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 summoned | advmod |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 summoned | nsubj |
| 3 | summoned | summon | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 kindred | det:predet |
| 5 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 kindred | nmod:poss |
| 6 | kindred | kindred | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 summoned | xcomp |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 destroy | mark |
| 8 | destroy | destroy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 kindred | xcomp |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 destroy | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 made | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 made | cc |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 made | nsubj |
| 13 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 summoned | conj |
| 14 | peace | peace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 made | obj |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 me | case |
| 16 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 made | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 took | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 took | cc |
| 19 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 took | nsubj |
| 20 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 spears | csubj |
| 21 | fifty | fifty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 22 fish | nummod |
| 22 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 took | obj |
| 23 | spears | spear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 summoned | parataxis |
| 24 | from | from | ADP | _ | 26 back | case |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 back | nmod:poss |
| 26 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 spears | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 summoned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | summon | past | I | then | kindred property | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | destroy | to-infinitive | I not said here | Llyw | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient | ||||
| 3 | make | past | Llyw | peace | with me | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent peace=Product | |||
| 4 | take | past | I | fifty fish | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument fish=Destination | ||||
| 5 | spear | present | Llyw's back | vn carve-21.2-3 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient |
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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