The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 51

At last, when he got his breath, Moti sent him off to bring his king, and to tell him that if he was reasonable his life should be spared.

Who acts: officer, Moti · What happens: get, send off, bring, tell, be, spare · To what, where: breath, last, officer, king, reasonable life · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (officer, Moti), 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 last	case
2	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 got	obl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 last	punct
4	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	6 got	advmod
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 got	nsubj
6	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 breath	nmod:poss
8	breath	breath	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 got	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 sent	punct
10	Moti	Moti	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 sent	nsubj
11	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 got	conj
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 sent	obj
13	off	off	ADP	_	11 sent	compound:prt
14	to	to	PART	_	15 bring	mark
15	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 sent	advcl
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 king	nmod:poss
17	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 bring	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 tell	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 tell	cc
20	to	to	PART	_	21 tell	mark
21	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 got	conj
22	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 tell	iobj
23	that	that	SCONJ	_	32 spared	mark
24	if	if	SCONJ	_	27 reasonable	mark
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 reasonable	nsubj
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 reasonable	cop
27	reasonable	reasonable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 life	amod
28	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 life	nmod:poss
29	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 spared	nsubj:pass
30	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 spared	aux
31	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	32 spared	aux:pass
32	spared	spare	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 tell	advcl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 got	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	get	past	officer	officer's breath		last		vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent breath=Theme at last=Asset
2	send off	past	Moti	officer				vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
3	bring	to-infinitive	Moti not said here		officer's king			vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument king=Destination
4	tell speech: assert	to-infinitive	officer not said here		officer			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
5	is a condition, not said to happen	past	officer				reasonable property	tree rules
6	spare	should · passive		officer's reasonable life				vn bill-54.5 «NP V NP NP.asset»: subject=Asset

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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