The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 39, sentence 61

He was taken from his mother when three nights old, and it is not know where he now is, nor whether he is living or dead, and though thou find him yet the boar will never be slain save only with the sword of Gwrnach the giant, and if thou obtain it not neither shalt thou obtain my daughter.’

Who acts: it, dog, thou · What happens: take, not be, be, live, find, not slay · To what, where: dog, boar, sword, world, daughter · 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 (it, dog, thou), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 taken	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 taken	aux:pass
3	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	from	from	ADP	_	6 mother	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 mother	nmod:poss
6	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 taken	obl
7	when	when	SCONJ	_	10 old	mark
8	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 nights	nummod
9	nights	night	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 old	obl:unmarked
10	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 taken	advcl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 know	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 know	cc
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 know	nsubj
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 know	cop
15	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 know	advmod
16	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 taken	parataxis
17	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	20 is	advmod
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 is	nsubj
19	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	20 is	advmod
20	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 know	ccomp
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 living	punct
22	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	26 living	cc
23	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	26 living	mark
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 living	nsubj
25	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 living	aux
26	living	live	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 taken	conj
27	or	or	CCONJ	_	28 dead	cc
28	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 living	conj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 save	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 save	cc
31	though	though	SCONJ	_	33 find	mark
32	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	33 find	nsubj
33	find	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	42 save	advcl
34	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 find	obj
35	yet	yet	CCONJ	_	41 slain	cc
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 boar	det
37	boar	boar	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 slain	nsubj:pass
38	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	41 slain	aux
39	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	41 slain	advmod
40	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	41 slain	aux:pass
41	slain	slay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	33 find	conj
42	save	save	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 taken	parataxis
43	only	only	ADV	_	46 sword	advmod
44	with	with	ADP	_	46 sword	case
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 sword	det
46	sword	sword	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 save	obj
47	of	of	ADP	_	48 Gwrnach	case
48	Gwrnach	Gwrnach	PROPN	Number=Sing	46 sword	appos
49	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	50 giant	det
50	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	48 Gwrnach	amod
51	,	,	PUNCT	_	55 obtain	punct
52	and	and	CCONJ	_	55 obtain	cc
53	if	if	SCONJ	_	55 obtain	mark
54	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	55 obtain	nsubj
55	obtain	obtain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	42 save	parataxis
56	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	55 obtain	obj
57	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	55 obtain	advmod
58	neither	neither	ADV	_	61 obtain	advmod
59	shalt	shall	AUX	Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin	61 obtain	aux
60	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	61 obtain	nsubj
61	obtain	obtain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	55 obtain	advcl
62	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	63 daughter	nmod:poss
63	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	61 obtain	obj
64	.	.	PUNCT	_	42 save	punct
65	’	'	PUNCT	_	42 save	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	take	past · passive		dog		from dog's mother	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: subject=Theme from mother=Initial_Location
2	not is	present	it			know property	tree rules
3	be	present	dog		now		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	live	present · progressive	dog				vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	find	present	thou	dog			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Topic
6	not slay	future · passive		the boar			vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
7	save	infinitive		the sword			vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sword=Theme
8	not obtain a condition, not said to happen	present	thou	world			vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Theme
9	obtain	shall	thou	my daughter		neither property	vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset daughter=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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