The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 33

Then Taram-taq sent for a giant negro named Chil-maq, who in the day of battle was worth three hundred, and said to him: “I shall thank you to fetch me that man.”

Who acts: giant negro, Chil maq, Taram taq · What happens: send, name, be, say, thank, fetch · To what, where: Taram taq, Chil maq, negro, man · 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 (giant negro, Chil maq, Taram taq), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 taq	advmod
2	Taram	Taram	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 taq	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 Taram	punct
4	taq	taq	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 said	nsubj
5	sent	send	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 taq	acl
6	for	for	ADP	_	9 negro	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 negro	det
8	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 negro	amod
9	negro	negro	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sent	obl
10	named	name	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 negro	acl
11	Chil	Chil	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 maq	compound
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	13 maq	punct
13	maq	maq	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 named	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 worth	punct
15	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 worth	nsubj
16	in	in	ADP	_	18 day	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 day	det
18	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 who	nmod
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 battle	case
20	battle	battle	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 day	nmod
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 worth	cop
22	worth	worth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 maq	conj
23	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	24 hundred	compound
24	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	22 worth	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 said	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 said	cc
27	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
28	to	to	ADP	_	29 him	case
29	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 said	obl
30	:	:	PUNCT	_	34 thank	punct
31	“	"	PUNCT	_	34 thank	punct
32	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	34 thank	nsubj
33	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 thank	aux
34	thank	thank	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 said	ccomp
35	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	34 thank	obj
36	to	to	PART	_	37 fetch	mark
37	fetch	fetch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 thank	advcl
38	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	37 fetch	obj
39	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	40 man	det
40	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 fetch	obj
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	34 thank	punct
42	”	"	PUNCT	_	34 thank	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	send	participle		Taram taq not said here		for a giant negro	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	name	participle	a giant negro not said here	Chil maq			vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent maq=Theme
3	is	past	Chil maq			worth property	tree rules
4	say speech: assert	past	Taram taq		negro		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient clause=Topic
5	thank speech: thank in a quote	shall	Taram taq = taq		negro		vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme
6	fetch in a quote	to-infinitive	Taram taq = taq not said here	that man	Taram taq = taq		vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary man=Theme

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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