The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 68
‘Search,’ said the jogi, ‘for a lovely girl with a lance wound in her leg, and when she is found secure her safely and come and tell me, and I will advise you what to do next.’
Who acts: Search, I, you · What happens: say, find, come, tell, advise, do · To what, where: jogi, Search, me, you · 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 (Search, I, you), 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 | _ | 2 Search | punct |
| 2 | Search | search | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Search | punct |
| 4 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Search | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 jogi | det |
| 7 | jogi | jogi | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 girl | punct |
| 9 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 girl | punct |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 girl | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 girl | det |
| 12 | lovely | lovely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 girl | amod |
| 13 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 jogi | appos |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 wound | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 wound | det |
| 16 | lance | lance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 wound | compound |
| 17 | wound | wound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 girl | nmod |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 leg | case |
| 19 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 leg | nmod:poss |
| 20 | leg | leg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 wound | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 found | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 found | cc |
| 23 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 26 found | advmod |
| 24 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 found | nsubj |
| 25 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 found | aux:pass |
| 26 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 said | conj |
| 27 | secure | secure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 found | xcomp |
| 28 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 safely | nmod:poss |
| 29 | safely | safely | ADV | _ | 27 secure | advmod |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 come | cc |
| 31 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 secure | conj |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 tell | cc |
| 33 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 31 come | conj |
| 34 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 33 tell | iobj |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 advise | punct |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 advise | cc |
| 37 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 39 advise | nsubj |
| 38 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 39 advise | aux |
| 39 | advise | advise | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 said | parataxis |
| 40 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 39 advise | obj |
| 41 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 43 do | obj |
| 42 | to | to | PART | _ | 43 do | mark |
| 43 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 39 advise | xcomp |
| 44 | next | next | ADV | _ | 43 do | advmod |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 39 advise | punct |
| 46 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 39 advise | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Search | the jogi | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent jogi=Topic | ||||
| 2 | find | present · passive | Search | secure property | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic | ||||
| 3 | come | infinitive | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | tell speech: assert | infinitive | me | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient | |||||
| 5 | advise speech: other | future | I | you | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP how S_INF»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 6 | do not said to happen | to-infinitive | you not said here | next property | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |
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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