The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 70

The princess noticed this, and said: “O Dil-aram! you must take my madman into your charge and give him whatever he wants.”

Who acts: princess, you, Dil, your · What happens: notice, say, take, give, want, charge · To what, where: this, madman, charge, Dil, whatever · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (princess, you, Dil, your), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 princess	det
2	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 noticed	nsubj
3	noticed	notice	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 noticed	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 said	cc
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 noticed	parataxis
8	:	:	PUNCT	_	10 O	punct
9	“	"	PUNCT	_	10 O	punct
10	O	o	X	_	17 take	vocative
11	Dil	Dil	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 O	goeswith
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 Dil	punct
13	aram	aram	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 O	flat
14	!	!	PUNCT	_	10 O	punct
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 take	nsubj
16	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 take	aux
17	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 said	ccomp
18	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 madman	nmod:poss
19	madman	madman	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 take	obj
20	into	into	ADP	_	22 charge	case
21	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 charge	nmod:poss
22	charge	charge	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 take	obl
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 give	cc
24	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 take	conj
25	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 give	iobj
26	whatever	whatever	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 wants	obj
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 wants	nsubj
28	wants	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 give	ccomp
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 noticed	punct
30	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 noticed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	notice	past	the princess	this				vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus
2	say speech: express	past						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	take in a quote	must	you	my madman		your charge	O vocative	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent madman=Theme into charge=Destination
4	give in a quote	infinitive	you not said here		Dil			tree rules
5	want in a quote	present	Dil	whatever				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot whatever=Theme
6	charge in a quote		your					nom charge «act transitive»: poss=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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