The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 34

If the son had no sleep that night, no more had the father, and as soon as the sun rose, he sent a messenger into the great city with orders to bring back the younger brother.

Who acts: son, more, sun · What happens: have, rise, send, bring back · To what, where: sleep, father, messenger, great city, younger brother

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (son, more, sun), 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	If	if	SCONJ	_	4 had	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 son	det
3	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 had	nsubj
4	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 had	advcl
5	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	6 sleep	det
6	sleep	sleep	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 had	obj
7	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 night	det
8	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 had	obl:unmarked
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 had	punct
10	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	11 more	det
11	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	12 had	nsubj
12	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 father	det
14	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 had	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 sent	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 sent	cc
17	as	as	ADV	_	18 soon	advmod
18	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	25 sent	advmod
19	as	as	SCONJ	_	22 rose	mark
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 sun	det
21	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 rose	nsubj
22	rose	rise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 sent	advcl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 rose	punct
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 sent	nsubj
25	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 had	conj
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 messenger	det
27	messenger	messenger	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 sent	obj
28	into	into	ADP	_	31 city	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 city	det
30	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 city	amod
31	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 sent	obl
32	with	with	ADP	_	33 orders	case
33	orders	order	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 city	nmod
34	to	to	PART	_	35 bring	mark
35	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 sent	advcl
36	back	back	ADV	_	35 bring	advmod
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 brother	det
38	younger	young	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	39 brother	amod
39	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 bring	obj
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have a condition, not said to happen	past	the son	no sleep			night		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sleep=Patient
2	have	past	no more	the father					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent father=Patient
3	rise	past	the sun						vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	send	past	sun	a messenger		the great city with orders		soon property	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent messenger=Theme
5	bring back	to-infinitive	sun not said here		the younger brother				vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument brother=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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