The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 13

So, surrounded by the lion-guard, he slept till dawn, when the king lion said good-bye, and gave him a few of his own hairs and said: “When you are in any difficulty, burn one of these and I will be there.”

Who acts: prince, king lion, you · What happens: surround, sleep, say, give, be, burn · To what, where: few, prince, difficulty, one · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince, king lion, 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	So	so	ADV	_	11 slept	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 surrounded	punct
3	surrounded	surround	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 slept	advcl
4	by	by	ADP	_	8 guard	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 guard	det
6	lion	lion	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 guard	compound
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 lion	punct
8	guard	guard	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 surrounded	obl:agent
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 slept	punct
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 slept	nsubj
11	slept	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	till	till	ADP	_	13 dawn	case
13	dawn	dawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 slept	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 said	punct
15	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	19 said	advmod
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 lion	det
17	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 lion	compound
18	lion	lion	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 said	nsubj
19	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 slept	conj
20	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 said	xcomp
21	-	-	PUNCT	_	20 good	punct
22	bye	bye	INTJ	_	20 good	flat
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 gave	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 gave	cc
25	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 slept	conj
26	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 gave	iobj
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 few	det
28	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 gave	obj
29	of	of	ADP	_	32 hairs	case
30	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 hairs	nmod:poss
31	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 hairs	amod
32	hairs	hair	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 few	nmod
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 said	cc
34	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 slept	conj
35	:	:	PUNCT	_	42 difficulty	punct
36	“	"	PUNCT	_	42 difficulty	punct
37	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	42 difficulty	advmod
38	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	42 difficulty	nsubj
39	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	42 difficulty	cop
40	in	in	ADP	_	42 difficulty	case
41	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	42 difficulty	det
42	difficulty	difficulty	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 said	ccomp
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 burn	punct
44	burn	burn	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	42 difficulty	parataxis
45	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	44 burn	obj
46	of	of	ADP	_	47 these	case
47	these	this	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	45 one	nmod
48	and	and	CCONJ	_	52 there	cc
49	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	52 there	nsubj
50	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	52 there	aux
51	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	52 there	cop
52	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	42 difficulty	conj
53	.	.	PUNCT	_	52 there	punct
54	”	"	PUNCT	_	42 difficulty	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	surround	participle	prince not said here						vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme
2	sleep	past	prince				dawn		vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	say speech: assert	past	the king lion					good property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	give	past	prince not said here	a few of prince's own hairs	prince				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient few=Theme
5	say speech: assert	past	prince not said here						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
6	is in a quote	present	you			any difficulty			tree rules
7	burn in a quote	infinitive		one of these					vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent one=Theme
8	is in a quote	future	prince					there property	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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