The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 1, sentence 41

And he answered: 'Call all the head men of Senna here to the river's bank.'

Who acts: Senna · What happens: answer, call · To what, where: head men, bank · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Senna), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	3 answered	cc
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 answered	nsubj
3	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	6 Call	punct
5	'	'	PUNCT	_	6 Call	punct
6	Call	call	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 answered	ccomp
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	10 men	det:predet
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 men	det
9	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 men	compound
10	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 Call	obj
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 Senna	case
12	Senna	Senna	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 men	nmod
13	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 Call	advmod
14	to	to	ADP	_	18 bank	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 river	det
16	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 bank	nmod:poss
17	's	's	PART	_	16 river	case
18	bank	bank	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 Call	obl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 Call	punct
20	'	'	PUNCT	_	6 Call	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	answer speech: assert	past	Senna						tree rules
2	call	infinitive		all head men of Senna	the river's bank	here			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent man=Topic to bank=Recipient

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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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