The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 89
‘Well,’ says the king to the elder of the two princes, ‘go up to the smith’s forge, take my best coaches, and bring home the bridegroom.’
What happens: say, go up, take, bring · To what, where: king, best coaches, bridegroom · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 says | punct |
| 2 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 5 says | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Well | punct |
| 4 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 says | punct |
| 5 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 king | det |
| 7 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 says | obj |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 elder | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 elder | det |
| 10 | elder | elder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 king | nmod |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 princes | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 princes | det |
| 13 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 princes | nummod |
| 14 | princes | prince | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 elder | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 go | punct |
| 16 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 17 go | punct |
| 17 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 5 says | ccomp |
| 18 | up | up | ADP | _ | 17 go | compound:prt |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 forge | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 smith | det |
| 21 | smith | smith | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 forge | nmod:poss |
| 22 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 21 smith | case |
| 23 | forge | forge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 go | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 take | punct |
| 25 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 17 go | parataxis |
| 26 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 coaches | nmod:poss |
| 27 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 28 coaches | amod |
| 28 | coaches | coach | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 take | obj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 bring | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 bring | cc |
| 31 | bring | bring | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 17 go | conj |
| 32 | home | home | ADV | _ | 31 bring | advmod |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 bridegroom | det |
| 34 | bridegroom | bridegroom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 bring | obj |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 says | punct |
| 36 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 says | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | the king | to the elder of the two princes | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | go up | infinitive | to the smith's forge | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 3 | take | infinitive | my best coaches | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent coach=Theme | |||||
| 4 | bring | infinitive | the bridegroom | home property | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument bridegroom=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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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