The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 39, sentence 72

‘The knife is in the meat, and the drink is in the horn, and there is revelry in the hall of Gwrnach the giant, and save for a craftsman who brings his trade the gate will not be opened to-night.’

Who acts: knife, drink, revelry, craftsman · What happens: be, save, bring, not open, trade · To what, where: meat, horn, hall, trade, gate

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 (knife, drink, revelry, craftsman), 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	_	7 meat	punct
2	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 knife	det
3	knife	knife	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 meat	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 meat	cop
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 meat	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 meat	det
7	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 horn	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 horn	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 drink	det
11	drink	drink	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 horn	nsubj
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 horn	cop
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 horn	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 horn	det
15	horn	horn	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 meat	parataxis
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 is	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 is	cc
18	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	19 is	expl
19	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 horn	conj
20	revelry	revelry	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 is	nsubj
21	in	in	ADP	_	23 hall	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 hall	det
23	hall	hall	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 is	obl
24	of	of	ADP	_	25 Gwrnach	case
25	Gwrnach	Gwrnach	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 hall	appos
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 giant	det
27	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 Gwrnach	amod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 save	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 save	cc
30	save	save	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	7 meat	parataxis
31	for	for	ADP	_	33 craftsman	case
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 craftsman	det
33	craftsman	craftsman	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 save	obl
34	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	35 brings	nsubj
35	brings	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 craftsman	acl:relcl
36	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 trade	nmod:poss
37	trade	trade	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 brings	obj
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 gate	det
39	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 opened	nsubj:pass
40	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	43 opened	aux
41	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	43 opened	advmod
42	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	43 opened	aux:pass
43	opened	open	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	35 brings	parataxis
44	to	to	ADP	_	46 night	case
45	-	-	PUNCT	_	44 to	punct
46	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 opened	obl
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 meat	punct
48	’	'	PUNCT	_	7 meat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the knife		the meat			tree rules
2	is	present	the drink		the horn			tree rules
3	be	present	revelry		the hall; there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in hall=Location
4	save	infinitive					for a craftsman	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent for craftsman=Source
5	bring	present	a craftsman	revelry's trade				vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent trade=Theme
6	not open	future · passive		the gate		night		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme
7	trade		revelry					nom trade «act 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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