The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 1

King Quimus now sent for his daughter and for her mother, Gulrukh,[6] and talked to them.

Who acts: King · What happens: send, talk · To what, where: 6, daughter

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, 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 (King), 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	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 sent	nsubj
2	Quimus	Quimus	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 King	flat
3	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 sent	advmod
4	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	for	for	ADP	_	7 daughter	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 daughter	nmod:poss
7	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sent	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 mother	cc
9	for	for	ADP	_	11 mother	case
10	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 mother	nmod:poss
11	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 daughter	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 Gulrukh	punct
13	Gulrukh	Gulrukh	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 mother	appos
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 6	punct
15	[	[	PUNCT	_	16 6	punct
16	6	6	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	4 sent	obl
17	]	]	PUNCT	_	16 6	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 talked	cc
19	talked	talk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 sent	conj
20	to	to	ADP	_	21 them	case
21	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 talked	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 sent	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	send	past	King	6			now	for King's daughter and her mother	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	talk	past	King not said here		daughter				vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to they=Co-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 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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