The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 7
Then, striking a silver shield that hung close by, he said to the equerry who appeared immediately:
Who acts: king, silver shield, equerry · What happens: strike, hang, say, appear · To what, where: silver shield, equerry · 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 (king, silver shield, equerry), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 striking | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Then | punct |
| 3 | striking | strike | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 said | advcl |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 shield | det |
| 5 | silver | silver | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 shield | amod |
| 6 | shield | shield | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 striking | obj |
| 7 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 hung | nsubj |
| 8 | hung | hang | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 shield | acl:relcl |
| 9 | close | close | ADV | Degree=Pos | 8 hung | advmod |
| 10 | by | by | ADP | _ | 8 hung | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 striking | punct |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 said | nsubj |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 equerry | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 equerry | det |
| 16 | equerry | equerry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 said | obl |
| 17 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 appeared | nsubj |
| 18 | appeared | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 equerry | acl:relcl |
| 19 | immediately | immediately | ADV | _ | 18 appeared | advmod |
| 20 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | strike | gerund | king not said here | a silver shield | then | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shield=Patient | |||
| 2 | hang | past | a silver shield | close property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | king | the equerry | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to equerry=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | appear | past | the equerry | immediately property | vn appear-48.1.1 «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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