The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 100
‘You give me but a sorry welcome,’ grumbled he, ‘when I have half-killed myself to get to you.’
Who acts: You, sorry welcome · What happens: give, grumble, kill, get · To what, where: me, rock, myself, you
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, sorry welcome), 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 give | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 give | nsubj |
| 3 | give | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 give | iobj |
| 5 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 grumbled | cc |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 welcome | det |
| 7 | sorry | sorry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 welcome | amod |
| 8 | welcome | welcome | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 grumbled | nsubj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 welcome | punct |
| 10 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 welcome | punct |
| 11 | grumbled | grumble | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 give | conj |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 grumbled | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 have | punct |
| 14 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 17 have | punct |
| 15 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 17 have | advmod |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 have | nsubj |
| 17 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 killed | aux |
| 18 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 20 killed | compound |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 half | punct |
| 20 | killed | kill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 grumbled | conj |
| 21 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes | 20 killed | obl:unmarked |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 get | mark |
| 23 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 killed | advcl |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 you | case |
| 25 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 23 get | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 give | punct |
| 27 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | present | You | me | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | ||||
| 2 | grumble speech: other | past | a sorry welcome | rock | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Topic | ||||
| 3 | kill | present · perfect | a sorry welcome not said here | myself | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | get | to-infinitive | a sorry welcome not said here | you | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to you=Result |
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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