The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 56
He is brother to the king of the oak windows, and sure will he be that the king must be head, or the sword would not be in your hands.’
Who acts: king, sword · What happens: be, not be · To what, where: brother, sure head, hands
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 (king, sword), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 brother | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 brother | cop |
| 3 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 king | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 king | det |
| 6 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 brother | nmod |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 windows | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 windows | det |
| 9 | oak | oak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 windows | compound |
| 10 | windows | window | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 king | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 head | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 head | cc |
| 13 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 head | amod |
| 14 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 head | aux |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 head | nsubj |
| 16 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 22 head | cop |
| 17 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 22 head | mark |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 king | det |
| 19 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 head | nsubj |
| 20 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 head | aux |
| 21 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 22 head | cop |
| 22 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 brother | conj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 hands | punct |
| 24 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 32 hands | cc |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 sword | det |
| 26 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 hands | nsubj |
| 27 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 32 hands | aux |
| 28 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 32 hands | advmod |
| 29 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 32 hands | cop |
| 30 | in | in | ADP | _ | 32 hands | case |
| 31 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 hands | nmod:poss |
| 32 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 brother | conj |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 brother | punct |
| 34 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 brother | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | king | brother and sure head or your hands | to the king of the oak windows | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is a | must · future | king | sure head | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | not is | would | the sword | your hands | 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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