The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 39, sentence 22

‘Her four great grandmothers and her four great grandfathers yet live,’ answered Yspaddaden Penkawr; ‘it is needful that I take counsel with them.’

Who acts: four great grandmothers, dower, I · What happens: live, answer, be, take · To what, where: Yspaddaden, counsel

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 (four great grandmothers, dower, I), 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	_	12 live	punct
2	Her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 grandmothers	nmod:poss
3	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 grandmothers	nummod
4	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 grandmothers	amod
5	grandmothers	grandmother	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 live	nsubj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 grandfathers	cc
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 grandfathers	nmod:poss
8	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 grandfathers	nummod
9	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 grandfathers	amod
10	grandfathers	grandfather	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 grandmothers	conj
11	yet	yet	ADV	_	12 live	advmod
12	live	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 live	punct
14	’	'	PUNCT	_	15 answered	punct
15	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 live	conj
16	Yspaddaden	Yspaddaden	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 answered	obj
17	Penkawr	Penkawr	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 Yspaddaden	flat
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 needful	punct
19	‘	'	PUNCT	_	22 needful	punct
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 needful	nsubj
21	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 needful	cop
22	needful	needful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 live	parataxis
23	that	that	SCONJ	_	25 take	mark
24	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 take	nsubj
25	take	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 needful	advcl
26	counsel	counsel	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 take	obj
27	with	with	ADP	_	28 them	case
28	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 take	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 live	punct
30	’	'	PUNCT	_	12 live	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	live	present	Custennin's four great grandmothers and Custennin's four great grandfathers			yet		vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	answer speech: assert	past	Custennin's four great grandmothers and Custennin's four great grandfathers not said here		Yspaddaden			vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent yspaddaden=Eventuality
3	is	present	dower				needful property	tree rules
4	take	present	I	counsel			with grandmothers = grandmother	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent counsel=Theme

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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