The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 39, sentence 56
And though thou get this yet there is that which thou wilt not get, for Trwyth the boar will not let any man take from him the comb and the scissors, unless Drudwyn the whelp hunt him.
Who acts: thou, that, boar, man, Drudwyn · What happens: get, be, not get, not let, take, hunt · To what, where: this, comb, boar
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, that, boar, man), 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 | _ | 4 get | cc |
| 2 | though | though | ADV | _ | 4 get | advmod |
| 3 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 4 get | nsubj |
| 4 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 is | advcl |
| 5 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 get | obj |
| 6 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 4 get | advmod |
| 7 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 8 is | expl |
| 8 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 14 get | nsubj |
| 10 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 get | obj |
| 11 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 14 get | nsubj |
| 12 | wilt | will | AUX | Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin | 14 get | aux |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 get | advmod |
| 14 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 is | ccomp |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 Trwyth | punct |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 Trwyth | case |
| 17 | Trwyth | Trwyth | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 let | obl |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 boar | det |
| 19 | boar | boar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 let | nsubj |
| 20 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 let | aux |
| 21 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 22 let | advmod |
| 22 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 14 get | conj |
| 23 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 24 man | det |
| 24 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 take | nsubj |
| 25 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 let | xcomp |
| 26 | from | from | ADP | _ | 27 him | case |
| 27 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 take | obl |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 comb | det |
| 29 | comb | comb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 take | obj |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 scissors | cc |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 scissors | det |
| 32 | scissors | scissors | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 comb | conj |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 Drudwyn | punct |
| 34 | unless | unless | SCONJ | _ | 35 Drudwyn | case |
| 35 | Drudwyn | Drudwyn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 take | obl |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 whelp | det |
| 37 | whelp | whelp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 Drudwyn | appos |
| 38 | hunt | hunt | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 35 Drudwyn | acl |
| 39 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 hunt | obj |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 is | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | present | thou | this | yet | though property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus | ||
| 2 | be | present | there | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | not get | future | that | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer which=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | not let | future | the boar | for Trwyth | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | take | infinitive | any man | the comb and the scissors | from boar; unless Drudwyn | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent comb=Theme from he=Initial_Location | |||
| 6 | hunt | infinitive | Drudwyn not said here | boar | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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