The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 13

‘Once every month I and my friends shoot birds in the forest,’ he answered, ‘but I was tired and bade them leave me to rest.

Who acts: I, king · What happens: shoot, answer, be, bade, leave, rest · To what, where: birds, forest, me · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, king), 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	_	9 shoot	punct
2	Once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	9 shoot	advmod
3	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	4 month	det
4	month	month	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 shoot	obl:unmarked
5	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 shoot	nsubj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 friends	cc
7	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 friends	nmod:poss
8	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 I	conj
9	shoot	shoot	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 shoot	obj
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 forest	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 forest	det
13	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 shoot	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 shoot	punct
15	’	'	PUNCT	_	9 shoot	punct
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 answered	nsubj
17	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 shoot	parataxis
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 tired	punct
19	‘	'	PUNCT	_	23 tired	punct
20	but	but	CCONJ	_	23 tired	cc
21	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 tired	nsubj
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 tired	cop
23	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 answered	ccomp
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 bade	cc
25	bade	bade	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 answered	conj
26	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 bade	obj
27	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 bade	xcomp
28	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 leave	obj
29	to	to	PART	_	30 rest	mark
30	rest	rest	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 leave	advcl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 shoot	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shoot	present	I	birds	the forest	month	once property	vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent bird=Theme in forest=Destination
2	answer speech: assert	past	king					vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is	past	I				tired property	tree rules
4	bade	past	king not said here	birds = bird				tree rules
5	leave	infinitive	king not said here	me				vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme
6	rest	to-infinitive	king not said here					vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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