The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 87
Then he told the old woman to go to the bridge and call for Hassan.
Who acts: play · What happens: tell, go, call · To what, where: old woman, bridge · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (play), 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 | 3 told | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 told | nsubj |
| 3 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 woman | det |
| 5 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 woman | amod |
| 6 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 told | iobj |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 go | mark |
| 8 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 told | xcomp |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 bridge | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 bridge | det |
| 11 | bridge | bridge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 go | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 call | cc |
| 13 | call | call | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 go | conj |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 Hassan | case |
| 15 | Hassan | Hassan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 call | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past | play | the old woman | then | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent woman=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 2 | go not said to happen | to-infinitive | play not said here | the bridge | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to bridge=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | call | infinitive | play not said here | for Hassan | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S_INF»: agent=Agent for hassan=Recipient |
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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