The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 39
Then you must have your sword ready, and take off the head of the man who sits on him, as he turns and looks at you.
Who acts: you, man · What happens: have, take off, sit, turn, look · To what, where: sword, head
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, man), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 have | advmod |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 have | nsubj |
| 3 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 have | aux |
| 4 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 sword | nmod:poss |
| 6 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 have | obj |
| 7 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 have | xcomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 take | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 take | cc |
| 10 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 have | conj |
| 11 | off | off | ADP | _ | 10 take | compound:prt |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 head | det |
| 13 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 take | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 man | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 man | det |
| 16 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 head | nmod |
| 17 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 sits | nsubj |
| 18 | sits | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 man | acl:relcl |
| 19 | on | on | ADP | _ | 20 him | case |
| 20 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 sits | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 turns | punct |
| 22 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 24 turns | mark |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 turns | nsubj |
| 24 | turns | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 take | parataxis |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 looks | cc |
| 26 | looks | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 turns | conj |
| 27 | at | at | ADP | _ | 28 you | case |
| 28 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 26 looks | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | must | you | your sword | then | ready property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sword=Patient | ||
| 2 | take off | infinitive | you not said here | the head of the man | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Theme | ||||
| 3 | sit | present | the man | on man | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on he=Location | ||||
| 4 | turn | present | man | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | look | present | man not said here | at you | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at you=Theme |
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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