The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 41

‘Good master, what shall we do for thee?’ asked they, and he answered, ‘Bring me the finest horse that ever was seen, and the grandest dress, and glass shoes.’

Who acts: we, Good master, master · What happens: do, ask, answer, bring, see · To what, where: Good master, grandest dress, finest horse, me · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we, Good master, master), 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	_	3 master	punct
2	Good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 master	amod
3	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 asked	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 do	punct
5	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 do	obj
6	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 do	aux
7	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 do	nsubj
8	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 master	appos
9	for	for	ADP	_	10 thee	case
10	thee	thou	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	8 do	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 do	punct
12	’	'	PUNCT	_	8 do	punct
13	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 asked	nsubj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 answered	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 answered	cc
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 answered	nsubj
18	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 asked	parataxis
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 Bring	punct
20	‘	'	PUNCT	_	21 Bring	punct
21	Bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 answered	ccomp
22	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 Bring	obj
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 horse	det
24	finest	fine	ADJ	Degree=Sup	25 horse	amod
25	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 Bring	obj
26	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 seen	nsubj
27	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	29 seen	advmod
28	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 seen	aux:pass
29	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 horse	acl:relcl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 dress	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 dress	cc
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 dress	det
33	grandest	grand	ADJ	Degree=Sup	34 dress	amod
34	dress	dress	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 asked	obl
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 shoes	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 shoes	cc
37	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 shoes	compound
38	shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 asked	parataxis
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	38 shoes	punct
40	’	'	PUNCT	_	38 shoes	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	do	shall	we	Good master			for thee	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality
2	ask speech: ask	past	Good master	the grandest dress				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	answer speech: assert	past	master					tree rules
4	bring	infinitive		the finest horse	me			vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent i=Destination horse=Theme
5	see	past · passive		the finest horse		ever		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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