The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 39, sentence 38
And Kilweh sat himself in a chair and spoke face to face with him.
Who acts: Kilweh · What happens: sit, speak · To what, where: Kilweh, chair, face · 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 (Kilweh), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 sat | cc |
| 2 | Kilweh | Kilweh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 sat | nsubj |
| 3 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 3 sat | obj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 chair | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 chair | det |
| 7 | chair | chair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sat | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 spoke | cc |
| 9 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 sat | conj |
| 10 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 spoke | obj |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 face | case |
| 12 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 spoke | obl |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 him | case |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 spoke | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | past | Kilweh | Kilweh | a chair | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent himself=Theme in chair=Location | |||
| 2 | speak speech: other | past | Kilweh not said here | face | to face; with Kilweh | tree rules |
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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