The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 59

“Build me a tower as fast as you can,” he said, “and see that there is room for a stool and a small table, and for nothing else.

Who acts: father, room · What happens: build, say, see, be · To what, where: tower, father · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (father, room), 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 Build	punct
2	Build	build	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 said	ccomp
3	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 Build	obj
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 tower	det
5	tower	tower	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Build	obj
6	as	as	ADV	_	7 fast	advmod
7	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 Build	advmod
8	as	as	SCONJ	_	10 can	mark
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 can	nsubj
10	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 fast	advcl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Build	punct
12	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Build	punct
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 said	nsubj
14	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 see	punct
16	“	"	PUNCT	_	18 see	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 see	cc
18	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 said	ccomp
19	that	that	SCONJ	_	21 is	mark
20	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	21 is	expl
21	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 see	ccomp
22	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 is	nsubj
23	for	for	ADP	_	25 stool	case
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 stool	det
25	stool	stool	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 room	nmod
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 table	cc
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 table	det
28	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 table	amod
29	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 stool	conj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 nothing	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 nothing	cc
32	for	for	ADP	_	33 nothing	case
33	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	14 said	ccomp
34	else	else	ADV	_	33 nothing	advmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	build in a quote	infinitive		a tower	father		fast property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset i=Beneficiary tower=Product
2	say speech: assert	past	father					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	see in a quote	infinitive						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	be in a quote	present	room for a stool and a small table			there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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