The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 60

Then he made over the fort and all that was in it to the care of the lion, saying: “Guard them, brother! let no one lay a hand on them.”

Who acts: king, that, saying, lion · What happens: make, be, say, let, lie, care · To what, where: fort, Guard, one, hand · 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 (king, that, saying, lion), 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	3 made	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 made	nsubj
3	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	over	over	ADP	_	6 fort	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 fort	det
6	fort	fort	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 made	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 it	cc
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	12 it	det:predet
9	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	12 it	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 it	cop
11	in	in	ADP	_	12 it	case
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 made	conj
13	to	to	ADP	_	15 care	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 care	det
15	care	care	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 made	obl
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 lion	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 lion	det
18	lion	lion	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 care	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 saying	punct
20	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	31 lay	csubj
21	:	:	PUNCT	_	23 Guard	punct
22	“	"	PUNCT	_	23 Guard	punct
23	Guard	Guard	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 saying	obj
24	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 Guard	nmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 brother	punct
26	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 Guard	conj
27	!	!	PUNCT	_	23 Guard	punct
28	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 saying	ccomp
29	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	30 one	det
30	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 let	obj
31	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 made	parataxis
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 hand	det
33	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 lay	obj
34	on	on	ADP	_	35 them	case
35	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 lay	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 made	punct
37	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 made	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past	king		the fort	then	to the care of the lion	tree rules
2	is	past	that		fort			tree rules
3	say speech: express	gerund		Guard guards and brother				tree rules
4	let in a quote	infinitive		no one				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme
5	lie in a quote	past	saying	a hand			on guards = guard	vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location hand=Theme
6	care		the lion					nom care «act intransitive»: of=agent

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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