The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 39, sentence 14
‘Come hither to-morrow and I will answer you,’ replied Yspaddaden Penkawr, and as they rose to leave the hall he caught up one of the three poisoned darts that lay beside him and flung it in their midst.
Who acts: I, Yspaddaden, men, one, darts · What happens: come, answer, reply, rise, leave, catch up · To what, where: morrow, you, hall, darts, midst · 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 (I, Yspaddaden, men, one), 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 Come | punct |
| 2 | Come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 replied | ccomp |
| 3 | hither | hither | ADV | _ | 2 Come | advmod |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 morrow | case |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 to | punct |
| 6 | morrow | morrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Come | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 answer | cc |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 answer | nsubj |
| 9 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 answer | aux |
| 10 | answer | answer | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 Come | conj |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 answer | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Come | punct |
| 13 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Come | punct |
| 14 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | Yspaddaden | Yspaddaden | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 replied | nsubj |
| 16 | Penkawr | Penkawr | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Yspaddaden | flat |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 rose | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 rose | cc |
| 19 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 21 rose | mark |
| 20 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 rose | nsubj |
| 21 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 replied | conj |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 leave | mark |
| 23 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 rose | xcomp |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 hall | det |
| 25 | hall | hall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 leave | obj |
| 26 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 caught | nsubj |
| 27 | caught | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 rose | parataxis |
| 28 | up | up | ADP | _ | 27 caught | compound:prt |
| 29 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 33 poisoned | nsubj |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 three | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 three | det |
| 32 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 29 one | nmod |
| 33 | poisoned | poison | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 caught | parataxis |
| 34 | darts | dart | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 poisoned | obj |
| 35 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 36 lay | nsubj |
| 36 | lay | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 34 darts | acl:relcl |
| 37 | beside | beside | ADP | _ | 38 him | case |
| 38 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 lay | obl |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 flung | cc |
| 40 | flung | fling | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 caught | conj |
| 41 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 flung | obj |
| 42 | in | in | ADP | _ | 44 midst | case |
| 43 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 44 midst | nmod:poss |
| 44 | midst | midst | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 flung | obl |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | infinitive | morrow | hither property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to morrow=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | future | I | you | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent you=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | reply speech: assert | past | Yspaddaden | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | rise | past | men = man | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | leave | to-infinitive | men = man not said here | the hall | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hall=Theme | ||||
| 6 | catch up | past | Yspaddaden | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 7 | poison | past | one of the three | darts | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dart=Patient | ||||
| 8 | lay | present | darts | beside Yspaddaden | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent beside he=Destination | ||||
| 9 | fling | past | Yspaddaden not said here | hall | men's midst | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent it=Theme in midst=Destination |
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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