The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 34, sentence 51

Elfi Bey did not tell Omar his father’s name, but expressly desired him to be at a great pillar four days’ journey east of Alexandria on the fourth day of the coming month, on which day he would be twenty-two years old.

Who acts: Elfi, four days, father · What happens: not tell, desire, be, east, come, name · To what, where: name, Omar, Elfi, great pillar · 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 (Elfi, four days, father), 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	Elfi	Elfi	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 tell	nsubj
2	Bey	Bey	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Elfi	flat
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 tell	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 tell	advmod
5	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	Omar	Omar	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 tell	iobj
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 father	nmod:poss
8	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 name	nmod:poss
9	’s	's	PART	_	8 father	case
10	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 tell	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 desired	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 desired	cc
13	expressly	expressly	ADV	_	14 desired	advmod
14	desired	desire	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 tell	advcl
15	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 desired	obj
16	to	to	PART	_	21 pillar	mark
17	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	21 pillar	cop
18	at	at	ADP	_	21 pillar	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 pillar	det
20	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 pillar	amod
21	pillar	pillar	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 desired	obl
22	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	23 days	nummod
23	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 east	nsubj
24	’	's	PART	_	23 days	case
25	journey	journey	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 east	compound
26	east	east	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 pillar	parataxis
27	of	of	ADP	_	28 Alexandria	case
28	Alexandria	Alexandria	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 east	nmod
29	on	on	ADP	_	32 day	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 day	det
31	fourth	fourth	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	32 day	amod
32	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 east	nmod
33	of	of	ADP	_	36 month	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 month	det
35	coming	come	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	36 month	amod
36	month	month	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 day	nmod
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 old	punct
38	on	on	ADP	_	40 day	case
39	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	40 day	det
40	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 old	obl
41	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	48 old	nsubj
42	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	48 old	aux
43	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	48 old	cop
44	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	47 years	nummod
45	-	-	PUNCT	_	46 two	punct
46	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	44 twenty	conj
47	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	48 old	obl:unmarked
48	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 tell	parataxis
49	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not tell speech: assert	past · do-support	Elfi	Elfi's father's name	Omar				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent omar=Recipient name=Topic
2	desire	past	Elfi not said here	Elfi				expressly property	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot he=Theme
3	is	to-infinitive				a great pillar			tree rules
4	east		four days				day	of Alexandria	tree rules
5	come	gerund							vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	is	would	Elfi				day; year	old property	tree rules
7	name		Elfi's father						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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