The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 39, sentence 86
The head of his lance will leave its shaft, and draw blood from the wind, and descend upon its shaft again.’
Who acts: head · What happens: leave, draw, descend · To what, where: shaft, blood, wind
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 (head), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 head | det |
| 2 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 leave | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 lance | case |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 lance | nmod:poss |
| 5 | lance | lance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 head | nmod |
| 6 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 leave | aux |
| 7 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 shaft | nmod:poss |
| 9 | shaft | shaft | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 leave | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 draw | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 draw | cc |
| 12 | draw | draw | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 leave | conj |
| 13 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 draw | obj |
| 14 | from | from | ADP | _ | 16 wind | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 wind | det |
| 16 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 draw | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 descend | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 descend | cc |
| 19 | descend | descend | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 leave | conj |
| 20 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 22 shaft | case |
| 21 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 shaft | nmod:poss |
| 22 | shaft | shaft | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 descend | obl |
| 23 | again | again | ADV | _ | 19 descend | advmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 leave | punct |
| 25 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 leave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | future | the head of head's lance | lance's shaft | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shaft=Theme | ||||
| 2 | draw | infinitive | the head of head's lance not said here | blood | the wind | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent blood=Theme from wind=Initial_Location | |||
| 3 | descend | infinitive | the head of head's lance not said here | again | upon wind's shaft | vn meander-47.7-1 «NP V»: agent=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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