The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 34, sentence 53

If they answered: “Praised be the Prophet who has preserved you,” he was to follow them, and they would take him to his father.

Who acts: things, Praised Prophet, Prophet · What happens: answer, praise, be, preserve, take · To what, where: Praised Prophet, you, Prophet, father · 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 (things, Praised Prophet, Prophet), 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	If	if	SCONJ	_	3 answered	mark
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 answered	nsubj
3	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 follow	advcl
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	3 answered	punct
5	“	"	PUNCT	_	6 Praised	punct
6	Praised	praise	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 Prophet	amod
7	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 Prophet	cop
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Prophet	det
9	Prophet	Prophet	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 preserved	nsubj
10	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 preserved	nsubj
11	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 preserved	aux
12	preserved	preserve	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 answered	ccomp
13	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 preserved	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 preserved	punct
15	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 answered	punct
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 follow	nsubj
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 follow	cop
18	to	to	PART	_	19 follow	mark
19	follow	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
20	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 follow	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 take	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 take	cc
23	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 take	nsubj
24	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 take	aux
25	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 follow	conj
26	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 take	obj
27	to	to	ADP	_	29 father	case
28	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 father	nmod:poss
29	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 take	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 follow	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	answer speech: assert a condition, not said to happen	past	things = thing				tree rules
2	praise in a quote	participle					vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	is a in a quote	infinitive		the Praised Prophet			tree rules
4	preserve in a quote	present · perfect	the Praised Prophet		you		vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary
5	is	past	Prophet			follow property	tree rules
6	take	would	things = thing	Prophet	Prophet's father		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to father=Destination

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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