The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 39, sentence 89
By this time the whole of the sword was polished, and Kai gave it into the hand of Gwrnach the giant, who felt it and said:
Who acts: Kai · What happens: polish, give, feel, say · To what, where: porter, hand · Speech: someone speaks here
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 | By | by | ADP | _ | 3 time | case |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 time | det |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 polished | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 whole | det |
| 5 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 polished | advcl |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 sword | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 sword | det |
| 8 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 whole | obl |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 polished | aux:pass |
| 10 | polished | polish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 gave | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 gave | cc |
| 13 | Kai | Kai | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 gave | nsubj |
| 14 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 polished | conj |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 gave | obj |
| 16 | into | into | ADP | _ | 18 hand | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 hand | det |
| 18 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 gave | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 Gwrnach | case |
| 20 | Gwrnach | Gwrnach | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 hand | nmod |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 giant | det |
| 22 | giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 gave | obj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 felt | punct |
| 24 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 felt | nsubj |
| 25 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 gave | parataxis |
| 26 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 felt | obj |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 said | cc |
| 28 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 felt | conj |
| 29 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 10 polished | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | polish | past · passive | time | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination» | |||||
| 2 | give | past | Kai | porter | the hand of Gwrnach | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent it=Recipient giant=Theme | |||
| 3 | feel | past | porter | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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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