The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 65

As he spoke he fastened the loose cord about his neck, and when it was quite secure he told the Black Rogue to take the other end of the rope and draw him up from the ground.

Who acts: Lad, cord · What happens: speak, fasten, be, tell, take, draw up · To what, where: loose cord, Black Rogue, other end, Lad, ground · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Lad, cord), 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	As	as	SCONJ	_	3 spoke	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 spoke	nsubj
3	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 fastened	nsubj
5	fastened	fasten	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 spoke	ccomp
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 cord	det
7	loose	loose	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 cord	amod
8	cord	cord	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 fastened	obj
9	about	about	ADP	_	11 neck	case
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 neck	nmod:poss
11	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 cord	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 secure	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 secure	cc
14	when	when	SCONJ	_	18 secure	mark
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 secure	nsubj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 secure	cop
17	quite	quite	ADV	_	18 secure	advmod
18	secure	secure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 spoke	advcl
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 told	nsubj
20	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 secure	acl:relcl
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 Rogue	det
22	Black	Black	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 Rogue	compound
23	Rogue	Rogue	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 told	iobj
24	to	to	PART	_	25 take	mark
25	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 told	ccomp
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 end	det
27	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 end	amod
28	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 take	obj
29	of	of	ADP	_	31 rope	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 rope	det
31	rope	rope	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 end	nmod
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 draw	cc
33	draw	draw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 take	conj
34	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 draw	obj
35	up	up	ADP	_	33 draw	compound:prt
36	from	from	ADP	_	38 ground	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 ground	det
38	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 draw	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 spoke	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	speak speech: other	past	Lad					tree rules
2	fasten	past	Lad	the loose cord			about Lad's neck	vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cord=Patient
3	is	past	cord				secure property	tree rules
4	tell speech: assert	past	Lad		the Black Rogue			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent rogue=Recipient clause=Topic
5	take not said to happen	to-infinitive		the other end of the rope				vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent end=Theme
6	draw up	infinitive		Lad		the ground		vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent he=Theme from ground=Initial_Location

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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