The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 94
‘Then,’ says he, ‘maybe you’d give yourself a brushing, and get into that coach; the king wants to see you.
Who acts: you, king · What happens: say, have, give, get, want, see · To what, where: bridegroom, brushing, yourself, coach, you · 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: who acts (you, king), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 says | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Then | punct |
| 4 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 says | punct |
| 5 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 says | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 ’d | punct |
| 8 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 ’d | punct |
| 9 | maybe | maybe | ADV | _ | 11 ’d | advmod |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 ’d | nsubj |
| 11 | ’d | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 says | ccomp |
| 12 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 ’d | xcomp |
| 13 | yourself | yourself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 12 give | iobj |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 brushing | det |
| 15 | brushing | brushing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 give | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 get | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 get | cc |
| 18 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 give | conj |
| 19 | into | into | ADP | _ | 21 coach | case |
| 20 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 21 coach | det |
| 21 | coach | coach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 get | obl |
| 22 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 wants | punct |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 king | det |
| 24 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 wants | nsubj |
| 25 | wants | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 ’d | conj |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 see | mark |
| 27 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 wants | xcomp |
| 28 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 27 see | obj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 says | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | bridegroom | then | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | have | past | you | maybe property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | give | infinitive | you not said here | a brushing | yourself | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent yourself=Recipient brushing=Theme | |||
| 4 | get | infinitive | you not said here | that coach | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into coach=Destination | ||||
| 5 | want | present | the king | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 6 | see not said to happen | to-infinitive | the king not said here | you | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus |
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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