The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 22

He took hold of the prince’s reins, and said: “Dismount, man-child!

Who acts: prince, Dismount · What happens: take, say, hold · To what, where: hold, reins · 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, Dismount), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 took	nsubj
2	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	hold	hold	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 took	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	8 reins	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 prince	det
6	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 reins	nmod:poss
7	’s	's	PART	_	6 prince	case
8	reins	rein	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 hold	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 said	cc
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 took	parataxis
12	:	:	PUNCT	_	14 Dismount	punct
13	“	"	PUNCT	_	14 Dismount	punct
14	Dismount	dismount	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 said	nsubj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 child	punct
16	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 child	compound
17	-	-	PUNCT	_	16 man	punct
18	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 Dismount	conj
19	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	take	past	prince	hold of the prince's reins	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hold=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	Dismount and man child		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	hold			the prince's reins	nom hold «act transitive»: of=patient

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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