The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 39, sentence 132
‘Will silver or gold bring thy freedom, or only battle and fighting?’ asked Gwrhyr again.
Who acts: silver · What happens: bring, ask · To what, where: freedom, Gwrhyr · 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 (silver), 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 | _ | 6 bring | punct |
| 2 | Will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 bring | aux |
| 3 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 bring | nsubj |
| 4 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 5 gold | cc |
| 5 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 silver | conj |
| 6 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 asked | ccomp |
| 7 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 8 freedom | nmod:poss |
| 8 | freedom | freedom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 bring | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 battle | punct |
| 10 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 12 battle | cc |
| 11 | only | only | ADV | _ | 12 battle | advmod |
| 12 | battle | battle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 freedom | conj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 fighting | cc |
| 14 | fighting | fighting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 battle | conj |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 bring | punct |
| 16 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 bring | punct |
| 17 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | Gwrhyr | Gwrhyr | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 asked | iobj |
| 19 | again | again | ADV | _ | 17 asked | advmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring | future | silver or gold | thy freedom or battle and fighting | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent freedom=Theme | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | Gwrhyr | again | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent gwrhyr=Recipient clause=Topic |
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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