The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 39, sentence 6
‘Ah, maiden, since first I heard thy name I have loved thee--wilt thou not come away with me from this evil place?’
Who acts: I, thou, thy · What happens: hear, love, not come away, name · To what, where: name, thee, evil place · 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 (I, thou, thy), 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 | _ | 4 maiden | punct |
| 2 | Ah | ah | INTJ | _ | 4 maiden | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Ah | punct |
| 4 | maiden | maiden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 heard | punct |
| 6 | since | since | ADP | _ | 7 first | case |
| 7 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 9 heard | obl |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 heard | nsubj |
| 9 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 maiden | parataxis |
| 10 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 11 name | nmod:poss |
| 11 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 heard | obj |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 loved | nsubj |
| 13 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 loved | aux |
| 14 | loved | love | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 heard | ccomp |
| 15 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 14 loved | obj |
| 16 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 20 come | punct |
| 17 | wilt | will | AUX | Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin | 20 come | aux |
| 18 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 20 come | nsubj |
| 19 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 come | advmod |
| 20 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 maiden | conj |
| 21 | away | away | ADV | _ | 20 come | advmod |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 me | case |
| 23 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 come | obl |
| 24 | from | from | ADP | _ | 27 place | case |
| 25 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 27 place | det |
| 26 | evil | evil | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 place | amod |
| 27 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 come | obl |
| 28 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 maiden | punct |
| 29 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 maiden | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | I | thy name | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | love | present · perfect | I | thee | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer thou=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | not come away | future | thou | this evil place | with me; away property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from place=Initial_Location | |||
| 4 | name | thy | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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