The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 39, sentence 80
‘As thou wilt,’ answered the giant, and speedily did Kai polish half the sword.
Who acts: Kai · What happens: answer, polish · To what, where: giant, sword
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 (Kai), 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 answered | punct |
| 2 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 4 wilt | mark |
| 3 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 4 wilt | nsubj |
| 4 | wilt | will | AUX | Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin | 7 answered | advcl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 wilt | punct |
| 6 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 wilt | punct |
| 7 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 giant | det |
| 9 | giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 answered | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 polish | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 polish | cc |
| 12 | speedily | speedily | ADV | _ | 15 polish | advmod |
| 13 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 polish | aux |
| 14 | Kai | Kai | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 polish | nsubj |
| 15 | polish | polish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 answered | conj |
| 16 | half | half | DET | NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind | 18 sword | det:predet |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 sword | det |
| 18 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 polish | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | the giant | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent giant=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | polish | past · do-support | Kai | half sword | speedily property | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent sword=Destination |
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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