The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 109

The lion is a red transgressor, so when he comes rise and do him reverence; take a cloth and rub the dust and earth from his face, then set the game you have taken before him, well cleansed, and lay the hands of respect on your breast.

Who acts: lion, prince, you · What happens: be, come, rise, do, take, rub · To what, where: red transgressor, prince, cloth, dust, face, game

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lion, prince, you), 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 lion	det
2	lion	lion	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 transgressor	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 transgressor	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 transgressor	det
5	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 transgressor	amod
6	transgressor	transgressor	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 comes	punct
8	so	so	ADV	_	11 comes	advmod
9	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	11 comes	advmod
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 comes	nsubj
11	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 transgressor	conj
12	rise	rise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 comes	xcomp
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 do	cc
14	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 rise	conj
15	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 do	obj
16	reverence	reverence	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 do	obj
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 take	punct
18	take	take	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	12 rise	parataxis
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 cloth	det
20	cloth	cloth	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 take	obj
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 rub	cc
22	rub	rub	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	18 take	conj
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 dust	det
24	dust	dust	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 rub	obj
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 earth	cc
26	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 dust	conj
27	from	from	ADP	_	29 face	case
28	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 face	nmod:poss
29	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 rub	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 set	punct
31	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	32 set	advmod
32	set	set	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	18 take	conj
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 game	det
34	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 set	obj
35	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	37 taken	nsubj
36	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	37 taken	aux
37	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	34 game	acl:relcl
38	before	before	ADP	_	39 him	case
39	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 set	obl
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 cleansed	punct
41	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	42 cleansed	advmod
42	cleansed	cleanse	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	32 set	conj
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 lay	punct
44	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 lay	cc
45	lay	lay	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	18 take	conj
46	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	47 hands	det
47	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	45 lay	obj
48	of	of	ADP	_	49 respect	case
49	respect	respect	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 hands	nmod
50	on	on	ADP	_	52 breast	case
51	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	52 breast	nmod:poss
52	breast	breast	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 respect	nmod
53	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 transgressor	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the lion	a red transgressor				tree rules
2	come	present	prince					tree rules
3	rise	infinitive	prince not said here					vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	do	infinitive	prince not said here	prince				tree rules
5	take	infinitive		a cloth				vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cloth=Theme
6	rub	infinitive		the dust and earth	prince's face			vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent dust=Theme from face=Source
7	set	infinitive		the game		before prince; then		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent game=Theme before he=Destination
8	take	present · perfect	you	the game not said here				vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent game=Theme
9	cleanse	participle					well property	vn groom-41.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
10	lay	infinitive		the hands of respect on your breast				vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Result

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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