The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 15, sentence 44
“Tell the fox and the squirrel that they are to go with you, and fetch me back the prince’s sword,” ordered he.
Who acts: fox · What happens: tell, be, fetch back, order · To what, where: fox, sword, me, prince · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fox), 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 Tell | punct |
| 2 | Tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 ordered | ccomp |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 fox | det |
| 4 | fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Tell | obj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 squirrel | cc |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 squirrel | det |
| 7 | squirrel | squirrel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 fox | conj |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 go | mark |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 go | nsubj |
| 10 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 go | cop |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 go | mark |
| 12 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Sub Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 Tell | ccomp |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 you | case |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 go | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 fetch | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 fetch | cc |
| 17 | fetch | fetch | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 Tell | conj |
| 18 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 fetch | obj |
| 19 | back | back | ADV | _ | 17 fetch | advmod |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 prince | det |
| 21 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 sword | nmod:poss |
| 22 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 21 prince | case |
| 23 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 fetch | obj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Tell | punct |
| 25 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Tell | punct |
| 26 | ordered | order | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 27 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 ordered | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 26 ordered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert in a quote | infinitive | the fox and the squirrel | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent fox=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | is not said to happen, in a quote | present | fox | with the fox and the squirrel = fox; go property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | fetch back in a quote | infinitive | the prince's sword | me | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary sword=Theme | ||||
| 4 | order | past | prince | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=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 Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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