The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 102

I told the groom to be silent, and when next Gul took a horse from the stable to saddle another quickly and bring it to me.

Who acts: I · What happens: tell, be, take, saddle, bring · To what, where: groom, horse, stable, another, me · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 told	nsubj
2	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 groom	det
4	groom	groom	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 told	iobj
5	to	to	PART	_	7 silent	mark
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 silent	cop
7	silent	silent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 told	ccomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 took	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 took	cc
10	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	13 took	advmod
11	next	next	ADV	ExtPos=ADP	12 Gul	case
12	Gul	Gul	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 took	obl
13	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 told	conj
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 horse	det
15	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 took	obj
16	from	from	ADP	_	18 stable	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 stable	det
18	stable	stable	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 took	obl
19	to	to	PART	_	20 saddle	mark
20	saddle	saddle	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 took	advcl
21	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	20 saddle	obj
22	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	20 saddle	advmod
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 bring	cc
24	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 saddle	conj
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 bring	obj
26	to	to	ADP	_	27 me	case
27	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 bring	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	I		the groom			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent groom=Recipient
2	is not said to happen	to-infinitive					silent property	tree rules
3	take	past	I not said here	a horse		the stable	next Gul	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent horse=Theme from stable=Initial_Location
4	saddle	to-infinitive	I not said here	another			quickly property	vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent another=Destination
5	bring	infinitive	I not said here	stable	me			vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme to i=Destination

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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