The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 40, sentence 13
‘She is thine,’ answered Yspaddaden, ‘but it is Arthur and none other who has won her for thee.
Who acts: daughter, Arthur, razor · What happens: be, answer, have, win · To what, where: thine, Yspaddaden, Arthur, daughter
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 40. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (daughter, Arthur, razor), 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 | _ | 7 answered | punct |
| 2 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 thine | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 thine | cop |
| 4 | thine | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 7 answered | conj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 thine | punct |
| 6 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 thine | punct |
| 7 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 won | advcl |
| 8 | Yspaddaden | Yspaddaden | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 answered | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 answered | punct |
| 10 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 Arthur | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 Arthur | cc |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 Arthur | nsubj |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 Arthur | cop |
| 14 | Arthur | Arthur | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 won | nsubj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 none | cc |
| 16 | none | none | PRON | PronType=Neg | 14 Arthur | conj |
| 17 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 none | amod |
| 18 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 has | nsubj |
| 19 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 none | acl:relcl |
| 20 | won | win | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 21 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 won | obj |
| 22 | for | for | ADP | _ | 23 thee | case |
| 23 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 20 won | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 won | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | daughter | thine | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | past | Arthur not said here | Yspaddaden | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent yspaddaden=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | is a | present | razor | Arthur | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | have | present | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | win | past | Arthur | daughter | for thee | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent she=Theme for thou=Beneficiary |
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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