The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 32, sentence 13

Tell him that I am a captive, and bid him come with horses and men, the third day from this, to the hill that rises from the Thorny Valley.”

Who acts: you, I, hill · What happens: tell, be, bid, come, rise · To what, where: bird, captive, hill, Thorny Valley · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 32. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, I, hill), 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	Tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Tell	iobj
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	7 captive	mark
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 captive	nsubj
5	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 captive	cop
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 captive	det
7	captive	captive	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Tell	ccomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 bid	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 bid	cc
10	bid	bid	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Tell	conj
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 bid	obj
12	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 bid	xcomp
13	with	with	ADP	_	14 horses	case
14	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 come	obl
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 men	cc
16	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 horses	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 day	punct
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 day	det
19	third	third	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	20 day	amod
20	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 horses	conj
21	from	from	ADP	_	22 this	case
22	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	20 day	nmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 hill	punct
24	to	to	ADP	_	26 hill	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 hill	det
26	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 come	obl
27	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 rises	nsubj
28	rises	rise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 hill	acl:relcl
29	from	from	ADP	_	32 Valley	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 Valley	det
31	Thorny	Thorny	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 Valley	compound
32	Valley	Valley	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 rises	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Tell	punct
34	”	"	PUNCT	_	1 Tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	imperative	you not said here		bird			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
2	is a	present	I	a captive				tree rules
3	bid	past	you not said here	bird				tree rules
4	come	infinitive	you not said here			the hill	with horses and men and the third day from this	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to hill=Initial_Location
5	rise	present	the hill			the Thorny Valley		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from valley=Initial_Location

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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