The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 114
The king slipped five guineas into my hand as soon as I was on the ground, and thanked me, and bade me good night.
Who acts: king, I · What happens: slip, be, thank · To what, where: five guineas, hand, ground, me
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, I), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 king | det |
| 2 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 slipped | nsubj |
| 3 | slipped | slip | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 guineas | nummod |
| 5 | guineas | guinea | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 slipped | obj |
| 6 | into | into | ADP | _ | 8 hand | case |
| 7 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 hand | nmod:poss |
| 8 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 slipped | obl |
| 9 | as | as | ADV | _ | 10 soon | advmod |
| 10 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 16 ground | advmod |
| 11 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 16 ground | mark |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 ground | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 ground | cop |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 ground | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 ground | det |
| 16 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 slipped | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 thanked | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 thanked | cc |
| 19 | thanked | thank | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 slipped | conj |
| 20 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 thanked | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 bade | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 bade | cc |
| 23 | bade | bade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 night | nmod:poss |
| 24 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 bade | obj |
| 25 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 night | amod |
| 26 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 thanked | obl:unmarked |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 slipped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | slip | past | the king | five guineas | my hand | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent guinea=Patient | |||
| 2 | is | past | I | the ground | soon property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | thank speech: thank | past | the king not said here | me | night | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=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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