The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 39, sentence 124

‘Salmon of Llyn Llyw,’ he called, ‘I have come to thee with an embassy from Arthur to inquire if thou knowest aught concerning Mabon the son of Modron.’

Who acts: Llyw, I, thou · What happens: call, come, inquire, know, concern · To what, where: Salmon, thee, aught, Mabon · 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 (Llyw, I, thou), 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	_	2 Salmon	punct
2	Salmon	salmon	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 called	obl
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 Llyn	case
4	Llyn	Llyn	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Salmon	nmod
5	Llyw	Llyw	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Llyn	flat
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Salmon	punct
7	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Salmon	punct
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 called	nsubj
9	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 come	punct
11	‘	'	PUNCT	_	14 come	punct
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 come	nsubj
13	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 come	aux
14	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 called	parataxis
15	to	to	ADP	_	16 thee	case
16	thee	thou	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	14 come	obl
17	with	with	ADP	_	19 embassy	case
18	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 embassy	det
19	embassy	embassy	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 come	obl
20	from	from	ADP	_	21 Arthur	case
21	Arthur	Arthur	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 embassy	nmod
22	to	to	PART	_	23 inquire	mark
23	inquire	inquire	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 come	advcl
24	if	if	SCONJ	_	26 knowest	mark
25	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	26 knowest	nsubj
26	knowest	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 inquire	advcl
27	aught	aught	PRON	PronType=Ind	26 knowest	obj
28	concerning	concern	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	27 aught	acl
29	Mabon	Mabon	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 concerning	obj
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 son	det
31	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 concerning	obj
32	of	of	ADP	_	33 Modron	case
33	Modron	Modron	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 son	nmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 called	punct
35	’	'	PUNCT	_	9 called	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	call speech: assert	past	Llyw	Salmon of Llyn			vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	come	present · perfect	I		thee	with a embassy from Arthur	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to thou=Initial_Location
3	inquire speech: other	to-infinitive	I not said here				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	know a condition, not said to happen	present	thou	aught			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer aught=Stimulus
5	concern	gerund		Mabon			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Stimulus mabon=Experiencer son=Result

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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