The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 140

‘I will,’ replied the Gruagach, and they played, and sometimes it seemed as if one would win, and sometimes the other, but in the end the king was the winner.

Who acts: birds, it, one, king · What happens: reply, play, seem, win, be · To what, where: Gruagach, winner, end

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 (birds, it, one, king), 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 replied	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 will	nsubj
3	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 replied	aux
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 will	punct
5	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 will	punct
6	replied	reply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Gruagach	det
8	Gruagach	Gruagach	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 replied	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 played	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 played	cc
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 played	nsubj
12	played	play	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 replied	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 seemed	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 seemed	cc
15	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	17 seemed	advmod
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 seemed	nsubj
17	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 played	parataxis
18	as	as	SCONJ	_	22 win	mark
19	if	if	SCONJ	_	22 win	mark
20	one	one	PRON	Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 win	nsubj
21	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 win	aux
22	win	win	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 seemed	xcomp
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 other	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 other	cc
25	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	27 other	advmod
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 other	det
27	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 win	parataxis
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 winner	punct
29	but	but	CCONJ	_	37 winner	cc
30	in	in	ADP	_	32 end	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 end	det
32	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 winner	obl
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 king	det
34	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 winner	nsubj
35	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 winner	cop
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 winner	det
37	winner	winner	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 win	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 replied	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	reply speech: assert	future		the Gruagach			vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent gruagach=Topic
2	play	past	birds = bird				vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	seem	past	it			sometimes property	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
4	win a condition, not said to happen	would	one				vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	is a	past	the king	the winner	in the end		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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