The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 39, sentence 13
‘We come to ask thy daughter Olwen for Kilweh, son of Kilydd.’
Who acts: We · What happens: come, ask · To what, where: Olwen
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), 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 come | punct |
| 2 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 come | nsubj |
| 3 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 ask | mark |
| 5 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 come | xcomp |
| 6 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 7 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 7 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 Olwen | nmod:desc |
| 8 | Olwen | Olwen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 ask | obj |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 Kilweh | case |
| 10 | Kilweh | Kilweh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Olwen | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 son | punct |
| 12 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 Olwen | appos |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 Kilydd | case |
| 14 | Kilydd | Kilydd | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 son | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 come | punct |
| 16 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | present | We | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | to-infinitive | We not said here | Olwen thy daughter | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent olwen=Recipient |
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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