The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 89
‘I have sought them and not found them,’ answered the king, ‘and nought shall I get for my trouble.’
Who acts: I, nought, my · What happens: seek, not found, answer, get, trouble · To what, where: sticks, 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 (I, nought, my), 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 sought | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 sought | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 sought | aux |
| 4 | sought | seek | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 12 answered | advcl |
| 5 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 sought | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 found | cc |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 found | advmod |
| 8 | found | found | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 sought | conj |
| 9 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 found | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 sought | punct |
| 11 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 answered | punct |
| 12 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 king | det |
| 14 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 answered | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 get | punct |
| 16 | ‘ | ‘ | PUNCT | _ | 21 get | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 get | cc |
| 18 | nought | nought | PRON | PronType=Neg | 21 get | nsubj |
| 19 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 get | aux |
| 20 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 get | nsubj |
| 21 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 king | parataxis |
| 22 | for | for | ADP | _ | 24 trouble | case |
| 23 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 trouble | nmod:poss |
| 24 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 get | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 answered | punct |
| 26 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seek | present · perfect | I | sticks = stick | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not found | infinitive | I not said here | sticks = stick | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient | ||||
| 3 | answer speech: assert | past | the king | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent king=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | get | shall | nought | for my trouble | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent for trouble=Source | ||||
| 5 | trouble | my | nom trouble «cognition transitive»: poss=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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