The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 34, sentence 45

He told Labakan that his own name was Omar, that he was a nephew of Elfi Bey, and was travelling in order to carry out a command given him by his uncle on his death bed.

Who acts: Prince, own name, command · What happens: tell, be, travel, carry out, give, name · To what, where: Labakan, Omar, nephew, order, command, Prince · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 34. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prince, own name, command), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 told	nsubj
2	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Labakan	Labakan	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 told	iobj
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 Omar	mark
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 name	nmod:poss
6	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 name	amod
7	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 Omar	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 Omar	cop
9	Omar	Omar	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 told	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 nephew	punct
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	15 nephew	mark
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 nephew	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 nephew	cop
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 nephew	det
15	nephew	nephew	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 Omar	appos
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 Elfi	case
17	Elfi	Elfi	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 nephew	nmod
18	Bey	Bey	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 Elfi	flat
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 travelling	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 travelling	cc
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 travelling	aux
22	travelling	travel	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 told	advcl
23	in	in	ADP	_	24 order	case
24	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 travelling	obl
25	to	to	PART	_	26 carry	mark
26	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 travelling	advcl
27	out	out	ADP	_	26 carry	compound:prt
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 command	det
29	command	command	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 carry	obj
30	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	29 command	acl
31	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 given	obj
32	by	by	ADP	_	34 uncle	case
33	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 uncle	nmod:poss
34	uncle	uncle	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 given	obl
35	on	on	ADP	_	38 bed	case
36	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 bed	nmod:poss
37	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 bed	compound
38	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 uncle	nmod
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	Prince		Labakan			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent labakan=Recipient
2	is a	past	Prince's own name	Omar				tree rules
3	is a	past	Prince	a nephew			of Elfi	tree rules
4	travel	past · progressive	Prince not said here			order		vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in order=Trajectory
5	carry out	to-infinitive	Prince not said here	a command				vn act-114 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent command=Eventuality
6	give	participle	a command not said here	Prince			by Prince's uncle on Prince's death bed	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
7	name		Prince					nom name «communication 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 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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