The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 84
Eat and sleep and I will watch thee,’ and the king did as he was bidden by the hawk, and by the morning he felt brave again.
Who acts: you, I, king, hawk · What happens: eat, sleep, watch, do, bid, feel · To what, where: thee, king
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 (you, I, king, hawk), 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 | Eat | eat | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 sleep | cc |
| 3 | sleep | sleep | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Eat | conj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 watch | cc |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 watch | nsubj |
| 6 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 watch | aux |
| 7 | watch | watch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Eat | conj |
| 8 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 7 watch | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 watch | punct |
| 10 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 watch | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 did | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 king | det |
| 13 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 did | nsubj |
| 14 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Eat | conj |
| 15 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 18 bidden | mark |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 bidden | nsubj |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 bidden | aux:pass |
| 18 | bidden | bid | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 did | advcl |
| 19 | by | by | ADP | _ | 21 hawk | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 hawk | det |
| 21 | hawk | hawk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 bidden | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 felt | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 felt | cc |
| 24 | by | by | ADP | _ | 26 morning | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 morning | det |
| 26 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 felt | obl |
| 27 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 felt | nsubj |
| 28 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Eat | conj |
| 29 | brave | brave | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 felt | xcomp |
| 30 | again | again | ADV | _ | 28 felt | advmod |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Eat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | eat | imperative | you not said here | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | sleep | infinitive | you not said here | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | watch | future | I | thee | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thou=Theme | ||||
| 4 | do | past | the king | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | bid | past · passive | the hawk | king | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | feel | past | king | again; morning | brave property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
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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