The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 89

Then tell him that you have dreamt that he was just being carried off by the Turks because he could not answer the question about the foals, when the lad whom he had shut up in the tower ran up and told them which was foaled in the morning, which at noon, and which in the evening.”

Who acts: you, Turks, father, lad · What happens: tell, dreamt, carry off, not answer, shut up, run up · To what, where: father, question, lad, tower, foals · 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 (you, Turks, father, lad), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 tell	advmod
2	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 tell	iobj
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	7 dreamt	mark
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 dreamt	nsubj
6	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 dreamt	aux
7	dreamt	dreamt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 tell	advcl
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 carried	mark
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 carried	nsubj:pass
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 carried	aux:pass
11	just	just	ADV	_	13 carried	advmod
12	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 carried	aux:pass
13	carried	carry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 dreamt	advcl
14	off	off	ADP	_	13 carried	compound:prt
15	by	by	ADP	_	17 Turks	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 Turks	det
17	Turks	Turk	PROPN	Number=Plur	13 carried	obl
18	because	because	SCONJ	_	22 answer	mark
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 answer	nsubj
20	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 answer	aux
21	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	22 answer	advmod
22	answer	answer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 carried	advcl
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 question	det
24	question	question	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 answer	obj
25	about	about	ADP	_	27 foals	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 foals	det
27	foals	foal	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 question	nmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 ran	punct
29	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	40 ran	advmod
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 lad	det
31	lad	lad	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 ran	nsubj
32	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	35 shut	obj
33	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 shut	nsubj
34	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 shut	aux
35	shut	shut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	31 lad	acl:relcl
36	up	up	ADP	_	35 shut	compound:prt
37	in	in	ADP	_	39 tower	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 tower	det
39	tower	tower	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 shut	obl
40	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 foals	acl:relcl
41	up	up	ADP	_	40 ran	compound:prt
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 told	cc
43	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 dreamt	conj
44	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 told	iobj
45	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	47 foaled	nsubj:pass
46	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	47 foaled	aux:pass
47	foaled	foal	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	43 told	ccomp
48	in	in	ADP	_	50 morning	case
49	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	50 morning	det
50	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 foaled	obl
51	,	,	PUNCT	_	54 noon	punct
52	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	54 noon	nsubj
53	at	at	ADP	_	54 noon	case
54	noon	noon	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 morning	conj
55	,	,	PUNCT	_	60 evening	punct
56	and	and	CCONJ	_	60 evening	cc
57	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	60 evening	nsubj
58	in	in	ADP	_	60 evening	case
59	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	60 evening	det
60	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 tell	obl
61	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 tell	punct
62	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	imperative	you not said here		father		then; evening		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
2	dreamt	present · perfect	you						tree rules
3	carry off	past · passive	the Turks	father					vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme
4	not answer speech: assert	could	father	the question				about the foals	vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent question=Eventuality
5	shut up	past · perfect	father	the lad		the tower			vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whom=Patient
6	run up	past	the lad						vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	tell speech: assert	past	you not said here		foals = foal				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic
8	foal	past · passive					morning		vn calve-28.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

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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