The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 40, sentence 15

And as he spake Goreu the son of Custennin cut off his head, as if had been ordained, and Arthur’s hosts returned each man to his own country.

Who acts: Yspaddaden, son, hosts · What happens: speak, cut off, ordain, return · To what, where: Goreu, head, man, own country · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Yspaddaden, son, hosts), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	10 cut	cc
2	as	as	SCONJ	_	4 spake	mark
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 spake	nsubj
4	spake	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 cut	advcl
5	Goreu	Goreu	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 spake	obj
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 son	det
7	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 cut	nsubj
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 Custennin	case
9	Custennin	Custennin	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 son	nmod
10	cut	cut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	off	off	ADP	_	10 cut	compound:prt
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 head	nmod:poss
13	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 cut	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 ordained	punct
15	as	as	SCONJ	_	19 ordained	mark
16	if	if	SCONJ	_	19 ordained	mark
17	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 ordained	aux
18	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	19 ordained	aux:pass
19	ordained	ordain	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 cut	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 returned	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 returned	cc
22	Arthur	Arthur	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 hosts	nmod:poss
23	’s	's	PART	_	22 Arthur	case
24	hosts	host	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 returned	nsubj
25	returned	return	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 cut	conj
26	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	27 man	det
27	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 returned	obj
28	to	to	ADP	_	31 country	case
29	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 country	nmod:poss
30	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 country	amod
31	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 man	nmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 cut	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	speak speech: other	past	Yspaddaden	Goreu		tree rules
2	cut off	past	the son of Custennin	Yspaddaden's head		vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector head=Eventuality
3	ordain a condition, not said to happen	past · perfect · passive	the son of Custennin not said here			vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»
4	return	past	Arthur's hosts	each man	Yspaddaden's own country	vn send-11.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent man=Theme to country=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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