The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 152
‘The prize I choose,’ answered the Gruagach, ‘is that the crop-headed creature should take thy head and thy neck, if thou dost not get for me the Sword of Light that hangs in the house of the king of the oak windows.’
Who acts: I, prize, headed creature, thou, Light · What happens: choose, answer, head, be, not get, hang · To what, where: prize, Sword, house · Speech: someone speaks here
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, prize, headed creature, thou), 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 | _ | 3 prize | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 prize | det |
| 3 | prize | prize | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 answered | nsubj |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 choose | nsubj |
| 5 | choose | choose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 prize | acl:relcl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 choose | punct |
| 7 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 prize | punct |
| 8 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Gruagach | det |
| 10 | Gruagach | Gruagach | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 take | vocative |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 ‘ | punct |
| 12 | ‘ | ‘ | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 Gruagach | appos |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 take | cop |
| 14 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 21 take | mark |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 creature | det |
| 16 | crop | crop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 headed | compound |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 crop | punct |
| 18 | headed | head | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 creature | amod |
| 19 | creature | creature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 take | nsubj |
| 20 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 take | aux |
| 21 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 answered | ccomp |
| 22 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 23 head | nmod:poss |
| 23 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 take | obj |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 neck | cc |
| 25 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 26 neck | nmod:poss |
| 26 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 head | conj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 get | punct |
| 28 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 32 get | mark |
| 29 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 32 get | nsubj |
| 30 | dost | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 32 get | aux |
| 31 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 32 get | advmod |
| 32 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 take | conj |
| 33 | for | for | ADP | _ | 34 me | case |
| 34 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 32 get | obl |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 Sword | det |
| 36 | Sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 get | obj |
| 37 | of | of | ADP | _ | 38 Light | case |
| 38 | Light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 Sword | nmod |
| 39 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 40 hangs | nsubj |
| 40 | hangs | hang | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 38 Light | acl:relcl |
| 41 | in | in | ADP | _ | 43 house | case |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 house | det |
| 43 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 hangs | obl |
| 44 | of | of | ADP | _ | 46 king | case |
| 45 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 46 king | det |
| 46 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 house | nmod |
| 47 | of | of | ADP | _ | 50 windows | case |
| 48 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 50 windows | det |
| 49 | oak | oak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 50 windows | compound |
| 50 | windows | window | NOUN | Number=Plur | 46 king | nmod |
| 51 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 21 take | punct |
| 52 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 21 take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | choose | present | I | the prize not said here | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prize=Theme | ||||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | past | the prize | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | head | participle | vn conduct-111.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | is | should · present | the headed creature | the Gruagach vocative; take property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | not get a condition, not said to happen | present · do-support | thou | the Sword of Light | for me | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent sword=Theme for i=Beneficiary | |||
| 6 | hang | present | Light | the house of the king of the oak windows | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in house=Location |
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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