The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 12
‘Good luck to you, and victories in all your battles,’ she said, as she kissed him before he mounted.
Who acts: Good luck, horse, king, your · What happens: say, kiss, mount, battle · To what, where: king · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Good luck, horse, king, your), 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 luck | punct |
| 2 | Good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 luck | amod |
| 3 | luck | luck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 said | nsubj |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 you | case |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 luck | nmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 victories | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 victories | cc |
| 8 | victories | victory | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 luck | conj |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 battles | case |
| 10 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 battles | det:predet |
| 11 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 battles | nmod:poss |
| 12 | battles | battle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 victories | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 luck | punct |
| 14 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 luck | punct |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 said | nsubj |
| 16 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 kissed | punct |
| 18 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 20 kissed | mark |
| 19 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 kissed | nsubj |
| 20 | kissed | kiss | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 said | ccomp |
| 21 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 kissed | obj |
| 22 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 24 mounted | mark |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 mounted | nsubj |
| 24 | mounted | mount | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 kissed | advcl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Good luck to you and victories in your battles | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | kiss | past | horse | king | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent | ||||
| 3 | mount | past | king | vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | battle | your | nom battle «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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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