The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 115
‘No; I will play with the Gruagach,’ persisted the king.
Who acts: I · What happens: play, persist · To what, where: king
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 play | punct |
| 2 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 6 play | discourse |
| 3 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 2 No | punct |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 play | nsubj |
| 5 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 play | aux |
| 6 | play | play | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 persisted | ccomp |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 Gruagach | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Gruagach | det |
| 9 | Gruagach | Gruagach | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 play | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 play | punct |
| 11 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 play | punct |
| 12 | persisted | persist | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 king | det |
| 14 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 persisted | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 persisted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | play | future | I | with the Gruagach | vn play-114.2-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with gruagach=Co-Agent | ||||
| 2 | persist | past | the king | tree rules |
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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