The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 20, sentence 106

‘Then climb up the tree and see what it is,’ and the slave climbed up, and came back and told his master that a beautiful girl was sitting up there, and that it must have been her tears which had fallen on the face of the king’s son.

Who acts: you, slave, beautiful girl, tears · What happens: climb up, see, be, come back, tell, sit up · To what, where: tree, master, tears, face · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, slave, beautiful girl, tears), 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 climb	punct
2	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 climb	advmod
3	climb	climb	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	up	up	ADP	_	3 climb	compound:prt
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 tree	det
6	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 climb	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 see	cc
8	see	see	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 climb	conj
9	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 see	obj
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 what	nsubj
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 what	cop
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 climb	punct
13	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 climb	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 climbed	cc
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 slave	det
16	slave	slave	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 climbed	nsubj
17	climbed	climb	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 climb	conj
18	up	up	ADP	_	17 climbed	compound:prt
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 came	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 came	cc
21	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 climb	parataxis
22	back	back	ADV	_	21 came	advmod
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 told	cc
24	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 came	conj
25	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 master	nmod:poss
26	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 told	iobj
27	that	that	SCONJ	_	32 sitting	mark
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 girl	det
29	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 girl	amod
30	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 sitting	nsubj
31	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 sitting	aux
32	sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	24 told	ccomp
33	up	up	ADV	_	34 there	advmod
34	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	32 sitting	advmod
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 tears	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 tears	cc
37	that	that	SCONJ	_	41 been	mark
38	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 been	nsubj
39	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	41 been	aux
40	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	41 been	aux
41	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	43 tears	cop
42	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	43 tears	nmod:poss
43	tears	tear	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 climb	obl
44	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	46 fallen	nsubj
45	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	46 fallen	aux
46	fallen	fall	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	43 tears	acl:relcl
47	on	on	ADP	_	49 face	case
48	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	49 face	det
49	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 fallen	obl
50	of	of	ADP	_	54 son	case
51	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	52 king	det
52	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 son	nmod:poss
53	’s	's	PART	_	52 king	case
54	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 face	nmod
55	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 climb	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	roles by
1	climb up	imperative	you not said here	the tree			then	vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location tree=Theme
2	see	infinitive	you not said here					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	is a	present	slave					tree rules
4	climb up	participle	the slave					vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	come back	past						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	tell speech: assert	past			man's master			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent master=Recipient clause=Topic
7	sit up	past · progressive	a beautiful girl			there		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	is a	participle		Girl's tears				tree rules
9	fall	past · perfect	Girl's tears			the face of the king's son		vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on face=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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