The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 39, sentence 5
She entered, and sat down on a bench beside Kilweh, and he spake to her:
Who acts: maiden, Kilweh · What happens: enter, sit down, speak · To what, where: Olwen, bench · 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 (maiden, 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 entered | nsubj |
| 2 | entered | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 sat | punct |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 sat | cc |
| 5 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 entered | conj |
| 6 | down | down | ADP | _ | 5 sat | compound:prt |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 bench | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 bench | det |
| 9 | bench | bench | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sat | obl |
| 10 | beside | beside | ADP | _ | 11 Kilweh | case |
| 11 | Kilweh | Kilweh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 bench | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 spake | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 spake | cc |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 spake | nsubj |
| 15 | spake | speak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 entered | obl |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 her | case |
| 17 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 entered | obl |
| 18 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 2 entered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | enter | past | maiden | Olwen | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to she=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | sit down | past | maiden not said here | a bench beside Kilweh | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on bench=Location | ||||
| 3 | speak speech: other | 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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