The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 58
‘Didst thou get the sword?’ asked the Gruagach, when they met in the usual place.
Who acts: thou, spells · What happens: get, ask, meet · To what, where: sword, Gruagach, usual place · 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 (thou, 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 | _ | 4 get | punct |
| 2 | Didst | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 get | aux |
| 3 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 4 get | nsubj |
| 4 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 asked | ccomp |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 sword | det |
| 6 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 get | obj |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 get | punct |
| 8 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 get | punct |
| 9 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Gruagach | det |
| 11 | Gruagach | Gruagach | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 asked | iobj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 met | punct |
| 13 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 15 met | advmod |
| 14 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 met | nsubj |
| 15 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 asked | parataxis |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 place | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 place | det |
| 18 | usual | usual | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 place | amod |
| 19 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 met | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past · do-support | thou | the sword | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sword=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | the Gruagach | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent gruagach=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | meet | past | spells = spell | the usual place | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=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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