The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 95

Let your son fill it with forty slaves whose beauty shall be unequalled, all exactly like each other, and of the same height.”

Who acts: you, son · What happens: let, fill, unequall · To what, where: son, palace, beauty

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 (you, son), 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	Let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 son	nmod:poss
3	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Let	obj
4	fill	fill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Let	xcomp
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 fill	obj
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 slaves	case
7	forty	forty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 slaves	nummod
8	slaves	slave	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 fill	obl
9	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	10 beauty	nmod:poss
10	beauty	beauty	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 unequalled	nsubj:pass
11	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 unequalled	aux
12	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	13 unequalled	aux:pass
13	unequalled	unequall	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 slaves	acl:relcl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 each	punct
15	all	all	ADV	_	18 each	advmod
16	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	18 each	advmod
17	like	like	ADP	_	18 each	case
18	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	1 Let	obl
19	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 each	fixed
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 height	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 height	cc
22	of	of	ADP	_	25 height	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 height	det
24	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 height	amod
25	height	height	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Let	obl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Let	punct
27	”	"	PUNCT	_	1 Let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	let	imperative	you not said here	your son	like each; of the same height	tree rules
2	fill	infinitive	your son not said here	palace	with forty slaves	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent it=Patient with slave=Instrument
3	unequall	shall · passive		beauty		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 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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