The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 15, sentence 59

Then spake Iarlaid, the younger, and he said: 'Let one half be yours, and the other give to me; then you will have fewer people to rule over.'

Who acts: you, Iarlaid, one half, other, fewer people · What happens: speak, say, let, be, give, have · To what, where: Iarlaid, one half, yours, me, fewer people · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, Iarlaid, one half, other), 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 spake	advmod
2	spake	speak	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Iarlaid	Iarlaid	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 spake	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 younger	punct
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 younger	det
6	younger	young	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 Iarlaid	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 said	cc
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 said	nsubj
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 spake	advcl
11	:	:	PUNCT	_	13 Let	punct
12	'	'	PUNCT	_	13 Let	punct
13	Let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 spake	conj
14	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 half	nummod
15	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	13 Let	obj
16	be	be	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 Let	xcomp
17	yours	your	PRON	Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 be	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 give	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 give	cc
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 other	det
21	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 give	nsubj
22	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 Let	conj
23	to	to	ADP	_	24 me	case
24	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 give	obl
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	29 have	punct
26	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	29 have	advmod
27	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	29 have	nsubj
28	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 have	aux
29	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 Let	conj
30	fewer	few	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	31 people	amod
31	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 have	obj
32	to	to	PART	_	33 rule	mark
33	rule	rule	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 have	xcomp
34	over	over	ADV	_	33 rule	advmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 spake	punct
36	'	'	PUNCT	_	2 spake	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	speak speech: other	imperative	you not said here	Iarlaid		then		tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	Iarlaid					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	let	infinitive	you not said here	one half				tree rules
4	be	infinitive	one half not said here	yours				vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot your=Theme
5	give	infinitive	the other		me			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to i=Recipient
6	have	future	you	fewer people		then		tree rules
7	rule over	to-infinitive	fewer people not said here				over property	vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=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 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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