The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 39, sentence 83
‘I have a companion, noble sir, but he has no skill in this art.’
Who acts: I, giant · What happens: have · To what, where: companion, skill, art
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, giant), 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 | _ | 3 have | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 have | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 companion | det |
| 5 | companion | companion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 have | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 sir | punct |
| 7 | noble | noble | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 sir | amod |
| 8 | sir | sir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 companion | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 has | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 has | cc |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 has | nsubj |
| 12 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 have | conj |
| 13 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 14 skill | det |
| 14 | skill | skill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 has | obj |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 art | case |
| 16 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 17 art | det |
| 17 | art | art | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 skill | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 have | punct |
| 19 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | I | a companion and noble sir | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent companion=Patient | ||||
| 2 | have | present | giant | no skill | this art | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent skill=Patient |
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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