The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 63

‘I will give them,’ answered the man, and he took the horse, and the youth took the gun and the dog and the falcon, and went home with them.

Who acts: I, dog, youth · What happens: give, answer, take, go · To what, where: men, man, horse, gun

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 (I, dog, youth), 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	_	4 give	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 give	nsubj
3	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 give	aux
4	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 give	iobj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 give	punct
7	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 give	punct
8	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 give	parataxis
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 man	det
10	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 answered	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 took	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 took	cc
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 took	nsubj
14	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 give	parataxis
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 horse	det
16	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 took	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 took	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 took	cc
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 youth	det
20	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 took	nsubj
21	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 took	conj
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 gun	det
23	gun	gun	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 took	obj
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 dog	cc
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 dog	det
26	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 gun	conj
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 falcon	cc
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 falcon	det
29	falcon	falcon	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 gun	conj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 went	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 went	cc
32	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 took	conj
33	home	home	ADV	_	32 went	advmod
34	with	with	ADP	_	35 them	case
35	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 went	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 give	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	give	future	I		men = man		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
2	answer speech: assert	past			the man		vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent man=Eventuality
3	take	past	dog		the horse		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument horse=Destination
4	take	past	the youth	the gun and the dog and the falcon			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gun=Theme
5	go	past	the youth not said here			with men = man; home property	vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with they=Beneficiary

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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