The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 51

‘Now I must go to the Gruagach, to find out if the spells he laid on me are loose.’

Who acts: I, king, spells · What happens: go, find out, lay, be · To what, where: Gruagach, spells

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 (I, king, spells), 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	_	5 go	punct
2	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 go	advmod
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 go	nsubj
4	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 go	aux
5	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 Gruagach	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Gruagach	det
8	Gruagach	Gruagach	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 go	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 find	punct
10	to	to	PART	_	11 find	mark
11	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 go	conj
12	out	out	ADP	_	11 find	compound:prt
13	if	if	SCONJ	_	21 loose	mark
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 spells	det
15	spells	spell	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 loose	nsubj
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 laid	nsubj
17	laid	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 spells	acl:relcl
18	on	on	ADP	_	19 me	case
19	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 laid	obl
20	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 loose	cop
21	loose	loose	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 find	advcl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 go	punct
23	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 go	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	must	I		the Gruagach	now		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to gruagach=Initial_Location
2	find out	to-infinitive	I not said here					vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent
3	lay	past	king	the spells not said here			on me	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent spell=Theme on i=Destination
4	is a condition, not said to happen	present	the spells				loose property	tree rules

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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