The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 39, sentence 23

‘Be it so; we will go to meat,’ but as they turned he took up the second dart that lay by his side and cast it after them.

Who acts: you, we, grandmothers, Yspaddaden, second dart · What happens: be, go, turn, take up, lie, cast · To what, where: counsel, meat, second dart

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 (you, we, grandmothers, Yspaddaden), 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 Be	punct
2	Be	be	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 Be	obj
4	so	so	ADV	_	2 Be	advmod
5	;	;	PUNCT	_	8 go	punct
6	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 go	nsubj
7	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 go	aux
8	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 Be	parataxis
9	to	to	ADP	_	10 meat	case
10	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 go	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 meat	punct
12	’	'	PUNCT	_	10 meat	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 turned	cc
14	as	as	SCONJ	_	16 turned	mark
15	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 turned	nsubj
16	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 go	conj
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 took	nsubj
18	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 turned	ccomp
19	up	up	ADP	_	18 took	compound:prt
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 dart	det
21	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	22 dart	amod
22	dart	dart	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 took	obj
23	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 lay	nsubj
24	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 dart	acl:relcl
25	by	by	ADP	_	27 side	case
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 side	nmod:poss
27	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 lay	obl
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 cast	cc
29	cast	cast	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 lay	conj
30	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 cast	obj
31	after	after	ADP	_	32 them	case
32	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 cast	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Be	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	imperative	you not said here	counsel				vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot it=Theme
2	go	future	we		meat			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to meat=Initial_Location
3	turn	past	grandmothers = grandmother					tree rules
4	take up	past	Yspaddaden	the second dart				vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dart=Theme
5	lie	past	the second dart				by Yspaddaden's side	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by side=Location
6	cast	present	the second dart not said here	counsel		after grandmothers = grandmother		vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Product

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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