The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 53

And he bade messengers hasten to all the neighbouring villages, and tell his people to send him at once all the cattle he possessed.

Who acts: Masilo · What happens: hasten, tell, send, possess · To what, where: neighbouring villages, people, Masilo, cattle · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Masilo), 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	_	5 hasten	cc
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 hasten	nsubj
3	bade	bade	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 messengers	compound
4	messengers	messenger	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 he	conj
5	hasten	hasten	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	to	to	ADP	_	10 villages	case
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	10 villages	det:predet
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 villages	det
9	neighbouring	neighbouring	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 villages	compound
10	villages	village	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 hasten	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 tell	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 tell	cc
13	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 hasten	conj
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 people	nmod:poss
15	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 tell	iobj
16	to	to	PART	_	17 send	mark
17	send	send	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 tell	xcomp
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 send	obj
19	at	at	ADP	_	20 once	case
20	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	17 send	obl
21	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	23 cattle	det:predet
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 cattle	det
23	cattle	cattle	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 send	advcl
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 possessed	nsubj
25	possessed	possess	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 cattle	acl:relcl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 hasten	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	hasten	present	Masilo			all neighbouring villages	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to village=Destination
2	tell speech: assert	infinitive	Masilo not said here		Masilo's people		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent people=Recipient clause=Topic
3	send not said to happen	to-infinitive	Masilo not said here	Masilo			vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
4	possess	past	Masilo	all cattle not said here			vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot cattle=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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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