The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 81
‘Sore was the plight of thy wife and thy horses when they passed here with the giant,’ said the hawk.
Who acts: Sore, twigs, plight · What happens: be, pass, say · To what, where: plight, hawk · 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 (Sore, twigs, plight), 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 plight | punct |
| 2 | Sore | Sore | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 plight | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 plight | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 plight | det |
| 5 | plight | plight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 said | nsubj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 wife | case |
| 7 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 8 wife | nmod:poss |
| 8 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 plight | nmod |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 horses | cc |
| 10 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 11 horses | nmod:poss |
| 11 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 wife | conj |
| 12 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 14 passed | advmod |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 passed | nsubj |
| 14 | passed | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 plight | acl |
| 15 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 14 passed | advmod |
| 16 | with | with | SCONJ | _ | 18 giant | mark |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 giant | det |
| 18 | giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 passed | advcl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 passed | punct |
| 20 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 plight | punct |
| 21 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 hawk | det |
| 23 | hawk | hawk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 said | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 21 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Sore | the plight | of thy wife and thy horses | tree rules | |||
| 2 | pass | past | twigs = twig | here | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the plight | the hawk | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent hawk=Topic |
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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