The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 39, sentence 52
For thou must bring me the basket of Gwyddneu Garanhir which will give meat to the whole world.
Who acts: thou, basket · What happens: bring, give · To what, where: basket, me, meat, whole world
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 (thou, basket), 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 | For | for | SCONJ | _ | 4 bring | mark |
| 2 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 4 bring | nsubj |
| 3 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 bring | aux |
| 4 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 bring | obj |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 basket | det |
| 7 | basket | basket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 bring | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 Gwyddneu | case |
| 9 | Gwyddneu | Gwyddneu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 basket | nmod |
| 10 | Garanhir | Garanhir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Gwyddneu | flat |
| 11 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 give | nsubj |
| 12 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 give | aux |
| 13 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 basket | acl:relcl |
| 14 | meat | meat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 give | obj |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 world | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 world | det |
| 17 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 world | amod |
| 18 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 give | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 bring | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring | must | thou | the basket of Gwyddneu | me | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent i=Destination basket=Theme | |||
| 2 | give | future | the basket of Gwyddneu | meat | the whole world | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent meat=Theme to world=Recipient |
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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