The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 32
‘That is my history, and now you must beg the king to send messengers at once to Granada, to inform my father of our marriage, and I think,’ she added with a smile, ‘that he will not refuse us his blessing.’
Who acts: That, you, I, story, king, our · What happens: be, beg, send, inform, think, add · To what, where: history, king, messengers, father, us · 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 (That, you, I, story), 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 | _ | 5 history | punct |
| 2 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 history | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 history | cop |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 history | nmod:poss |
| 5 | history | history | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 beg | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 beg | cc |
| 8 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 11 beg | advmod |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 beg | nsubj |
| 10 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 beg | aux |
| 11 | beg | beg | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 history | parataxis |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 king | det |
| 13 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 beg | obj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 send | mark |
| 15 | send | send | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 beg | xcomp |
| 16 | messengers | messenger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 send | obj |
| 17 | at | at | ADP | _ | 18 once | case |
| 18 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 15 send | obl |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 Granada | case |
| 20 | Granada | Granada | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 once | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 inform | punct |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 inform | mark |
| 23 | inform | inform | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 send | conj |
| 24 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 father | nmod:poss |
| 25 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 inform | obj |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 marriage | case |
| 27 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 marriage | nmod:poss |
| 28 | marriage | marriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 father | nmod |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 think | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 think | cc |
| 31 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 32 think | nsubj |
| 32 | think | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 beg | conj |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 added | punct |
| 34 | ’ | ' | SCONJ | _ | 36 added | mark |
| 35 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 added | nsubj |
| 36 | added | add | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 think | ccomp |
| 37 | with | with | ADP | _ | 39 smile | case |
| 38 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 39 smile | det |
| 39 | smile | smile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 added | obl |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 refuse | punct |
| 41 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 46 refuse | punct |
| 42 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 46 refuse | mark |
| 43 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 46 refuse | nsubj |
| 44 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 46 refuse | aux |
| 45 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 46 refuse | advmod |
| 46 | refuse | refuse | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 36 added | parataxis |
| 47 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 46 refuse | obj |
| 48 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 49 blessing | nmod:poss |
| 49 | blessing | blessing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 refuse | obj |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 history | punct |
| 51 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 history | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | That | my history | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | beg speech: request | must | you | the king | now | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent king=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 3 | send not said to happen | to-infinitive | you not said here | messengers | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent messenger=Theme | ||||
| 4 | inform speech: other | to-infinitive | you not said here | my father of our marriage | vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent father=Recipient | ||||
| 5 | think speech: other | present | I | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 6 | add speech: assert | past | story | with a smile | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent with smile=Co-Patient | ||||
| 7 | not refuse | future | king | us | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | marry | our | nom marriage «state transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 9 | bless | king | nom blessing «act transitive»: 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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