The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 2, sentence 111

So one day he called to him a trusty servant named Butou, and said: 'Go you to the town and find out for me what is the secret of its greatness.'

Who acts: chief · What happens: call, name, say, go, find out, be · To what, where: trusty servant, Kufa, you, secret · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (chief), 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	So	so	ADV	_	5 called	advmod
2	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 day	nummod
3	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 called	obl:unmarked
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 called	nsubj
5	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 him	case
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 called	obl
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 servant	det
9	trusty	trusty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 servant	amod
10	servant	servant	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 called	xcomp
11	named	name	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 servant	acl
12	Butou	Butou	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 named	xcomp
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 said	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 said	cc
15	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 called	conj
16	:	:	PUNCT	_	18 Go	punct
17	'	'	PUNCT	_	18 Go	punct
18	Go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	15 said	ccomp
19	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 Go	obj
20	to	to	ADP	_	22 town	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 town	det
22	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 Go	obl
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 find	cc
24	find	find	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	18 Go	conj
25	out	out	ADP	_	24 find	compound:prt
26	for	for	ADP	_	27 me	case
27	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 find	obl
28	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	31 secret	nsubj
29	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 secret	cop
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 secret	det
31	secret	secret	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 find	ccomp
32	of	of	ADP	_	34 greatness	case
33	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 greatness	nmod:poss
34	greatness	greatness	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 secret	nmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 Go	punct
36	'	'	PUNCT	_	18 Go	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	call	past	chief	a trusty servant	Kufa	day		vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient
2	name	participle		a trusty servant not said here				vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	say speech: assert	past	chief not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	go	infinitive		you			to the town	vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location you=Theme
5	find out	infinitive					for me	vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent
6	is a	present		the secret			of secret's greatness	tree rules

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/2/111/