The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 8
‘Go and seek the priest who lives near the door of the prison, and ask him where you can find the old woman who visited him last night; and when you have found her, bring her to the palace.’
Who acts: you, priest, old woman · What happens: go, seek, live, ask, find, visit · To what, where: priest, door, king, old woman, woman, palace
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 (you, priest, old woman), 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 Go | punct |
| 2 | Go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 seek | cc |
| 4 | seek | seek | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 Go | conj |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 priest | det |
| 6 | priest | priest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 seek | obj |
| 7 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 lives | nsubj |
| 8 | lives | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 priest | acl:relcl |
| 9 | near | near | ADP | _ | 11 door | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 door | det |
| 11 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 lives | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 prison | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 prison | det |
| 14 | prison | prison | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 door | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 ask | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 ask | cc |
| 17 | ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 seek | conj |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 ask | obj |
| 19 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 22 find | advmod |
| 20 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 22 find | nsubj |
| 21 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 find | aux |
| 22 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 ask | advcl |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 woman | det |
| 24 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 woman | amod |
| 25 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 find | obj |
| 26 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 27 visited | nsubj |
| 27 | visited | visit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 woman | acl:relcl |
| 28 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 visited | obj |
| 29 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 night | amod |
| 30 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 visited | obl:unmarked |
| 31 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 36 found | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 found | cc |
| 33 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 36 found | advmod |
| 34 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 36 found | nsubj |
| 35 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 36 found | aux |
| 36 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 Go | advcl |
| 37 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 found | obj |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 bring | punct |
| 39 | bring | bring | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 Go | conj |
| 40 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 bring | obj |
| 41 | to | to | ADP | _ | 43 palace | case |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 palace | det |
| 43 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 bring | obl |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Go | punct |
| 45 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | imperative | you not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | seek | infinitive | you not said here | the priest | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent priest=Theme | ||||
| 3 | live | present | the priest | the door of the prison | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme near door=Location | ||||
| 4 | ask speech: ask | infinitive | you not said here | king | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | ||||
| 5 | find | can | you | the old woman | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent woman=Topic | ||||
| 6 | visit | past | the old woman | king | night | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent | |||
| 7 | find | present · perfect | you | woman | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Topic | ||||
| 8 | bring | infinitive | you not said here | woman | the palace | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme to palace=Destination |
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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