The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 39, sentence 76
‘Is it true what I hear of thee, that thou canst burnish swords?’
Who acts: porter, I, that · What happens: be, hear, burnish · To what, where: swords
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 (porter, I, that), 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 true | punct |
| 2 | Is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 true | cop |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 true | nsubj |
| 4 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 7 hear | obj |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 hear | nsubj |
| 7 | hear | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 true | advcl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 thee | case |
| 9 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 7 hear | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 burnish | punct |
| 11 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 14 burnish | nsubj |
| 12 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 14 burnish | nsubj |
| 13 | canst | can | AUX | Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin | 14 burnish | aux |
| 14 | burnish | burnish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 true | parataxis |
| 15 | swords | sword | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 burnish | obj |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 true | punct |
| 17 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 true | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | porter | true property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | hear | present | I | of thee | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | burnish | can | that | swords | tree rules |
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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