The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 1

‘It is true; it is he who is my son, and not the other,’ he said with an effort, ‘and let every man present swear to acknowledge him as king, after my death.’

Who acts: It, he, man present, my · What happens: be, not be, say, let, swear, acknowledge · To what, where: son, present · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (It, he, man present, my), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 true	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 true	cop
4	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 son	punct
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 son	nsubj
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 son	cop
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 son	nsubj
9	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 son	nsubj
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 son	cop
11	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 son	nmod:poss
12	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 true	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 other	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 other	cc
15	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	17 other	advmod
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 other	det
17	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 true	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 said	punct
19	’	'	PUNCT	_	21 said	punct
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 said	nsubj
21	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 true	conj
22	with	with	ADP	_	24 effort	case
23	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 effort	det
24	effort	effort	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 said	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 effort	punct
26	‘	‘	PUNCT	_	28 let	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 let	cc
28	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 said	ccomp
29	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	31 present	det
30	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 present	compound
31	present	present	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 swear	nsubj
32	swear	swear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 let	ccomp
33	to	to	PART	_	34 acknowledge	mark
34	acknowledge	acknowledge	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 swear	xcomp
35	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 acknowledge	obj
36	as	as	ADP	_	37 king	case
37	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 acknowledge	obl
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 death	punct
39	after	after	ADP	_	41 death	case
40	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	41 death	nmod:poss
41	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 acknowledge	obl
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	28 let	punct
43	’	'	PUNCT	_	28 let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	It			true property	tree rules
2	is a	present	it	my son			tree rules
3	not be						tree rules
4	say speech: assert	past	he			with a effort	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	let	infinitive					tree rules
6	swear	present	every man present				vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
7	acknowledge	to-infinitive	every man present not said here	present	after my death	as king	vn confess-37.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Topic
8	die		my				nom death «event intransitive»: poss=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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