The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 88

‘Sore was the plight of thy wife and thy horses when they passed the river last night,’ said the otter.

Who acts: Sore, sticks, plight · What happens: be, pass, say · To what, where: plight, river · 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, sticks, 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	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 river	det
16	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 passed	obj
17	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 night	amod
18	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 passed	obl:unmarked
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 otter	det
23	otter	otter	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 said	nsubj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	21 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Sore	the plight		of thy wife and thy horses	tree rules
2	pass	past	sticks = stick	the river	night		vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme river=Trajectory
3	say speech: assert	past	the plight				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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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