The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 17
‘We are at the end of the journey,’ said the horse, ‘and you will find the Sword of Light in the king’s own chamber.
Who acts: We, end, you · What happens: be, say, find · To what, where: end, horse, Sword, own chamber · 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 (We, end, you), 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 end | punct |
| 2 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 end | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 end | cop |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 end | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 end | det |
| 6 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 said | nsubj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 journey | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 journey | det |
| 9 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 end | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 end | punct |
| 11 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 end | punct |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 horse | det |
| 14 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 said | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 horse | punct |
| 16 | ‘ | ‘ | PUNCT | _ | 20 find | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 find | cc |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 find | nsubj |
| 19 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 find | aux |
| 20 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 said | conj |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 Sword | det |
| 22 | Sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 find | obj |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 Light | case |
| 24 | Light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 Sword | nmod |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 chamber | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 king | det |
| 27 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 chamber | nmod:poss |
| 28 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 27 king | case |
| 29 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 chamber | amod |
| 30 | chamber | chamber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 find | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | We | at the end | of the journey | tree rules | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the end | the horse | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent horse=Topic | ||||
| 3 | find | future | you | the Sword of Light | the king's own chamber | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sword=Topic |
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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