The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 62
‘Give me the sword to look at,’ said the Gruagach, peering forward; but like a flash the king had drawn it from under his nose and pierced the mole, so that the Gruagach rolled over on the ground.
Who acts: Gruagach, king · What happens: give, look, say, peer, draw, pierce · To what, where: sword, me, nose, mole, ground · 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 (Gruagach, king), 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 | _ | 2 Give | punct |
| 2 | Give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 said | ccomp |
| 3 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 Give | iobj |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 sword | det |
| 5 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Give | obj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 look | mark |
| 7 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 Give | advcl |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 look | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Give | punct |
| 10 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Give | punct |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Gruagach | det |
| 13 | Gruagach | Gruagach | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 said | nsubj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 peering | punct |
| 15 | peering | peer | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 said | advcl |
| 16 | forward | forward | ADV | _ | 15 peering | advmod |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 drawn | punct |
| 18 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 25 drawn | cc |
| 19 | like | like | ADP | _ | 21 flash | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 flash | det |
| 21 | flash | flash | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 drawn | obl |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 king | det |
| 23 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 drawn | nsubj |
| 24 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 drawn | aux |
| 25 | drawn | draw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 said | parataxis |
| 26 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 drawn | obj |
| 27 | from | from | ADP | _ | 30 nose | case |
| 28 | under | under | ADP | _ | 30 nose | case |
| 29 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 nose | nmod:poss |
| 30 | nose | nose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 drawn | obl |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 pierced | cc |
| 32 | pierced | pierce | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 drawn | conj |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 mole | det |
| 34 | mole | mole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 pierced | obj |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 rolled | punct |
| 36 | so | so | ADV | _ | 40 rolled | advmod |
| 37 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 40 rolled | mark |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 Gruagach | det |
| 39 | Gruagach | Gruagach | PROPN | Number=Sing | 40 rolled | nsubj |
| 40 | rolled | roll | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 said | parataxis |
| 41 | over | over | ADV | _ | 40 rolled | advmod |
| 42 | on | on | ADP | _ | 44 ground | case |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 ground | det |
| 44 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 rolled | obl |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | infinitive | the sword | me | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient sword=Theme | ||||
| 2 | look | to-infinitive | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the Gruagach | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | peer | gerund | the Gruagach not said here | forward property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | draw | past · perfect | the king | Sword | king's nose | like a flash | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent it=Theme from nose=Initial_Location | ||
| 6 | pierce | past | the king not said here | the mole | vn poke-19-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mole=Patient | ||||
| 7 | roll over | past | the Gruagach | the ground | over property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on ground=Trajectory |
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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