The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 39, sentence 129
So Kai and Gwrhyr went upon the shoulders of the salmon, and were carried under the walls of the prison, from which proceeded the sound of great weeping.
Who acts: Kai · What happens: go, carry, proceed · To what, where: shoulders, walls, sound
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 (Kai), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 5 went | advmod |
| 2 | Kai | Kai | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 went | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 Gwrhyr | cc |
| 4 | Gwrhyr | Gwrhyr | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Kai | conj |
| 5 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 8 shoulders | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 shoulders | det |
| 8 | shoulders | shoulder | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 went | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 salmon | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 salmon | det |
| 11 | salmon | salmon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 shoulders | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 carried | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 carried | cc |
| 14 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 carried | aux:pass |
| 15 | carried | carry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 went | parataxis |
| 16 | under | under | ADP | _ | 18 walls | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 walls | det |
| 18 | walls | wall | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 carried | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 prison | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 prison | det |
| 21 | prison | prison | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 walls | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 proceeded | punct |
| 23 | from | from | ADP | _ | 24 which | case |
| 24 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 proceeded | nsubj |
| 25 | proceeded | proceed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 carried | conj |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 sound | det |
| 27 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 proceeded | obj |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 weeping | case |
| 29 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 weeping | amod |
| 30 | weeping | weeping | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 sound | nmod |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | Kai and Gwrhyr | the shoulders of the salmon | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme upon shoulder=Location | ||||
| 2 | carry | past · passive | the walls of the prison | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP» | |||||
| 3 | proceed | past | the sound of great weeping | tree rules |
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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