The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 18
I will manage all that,’ said the king’s son, and swinging himself to a lower branch, he bade his slave go quickly into the town, and bring back with him four strong men and a curtained litter.
Who acts: I, king, slave · What happens: manage, say, swing, bade, go, bring back · To what, where: that, son, king, lower branch, town, four strong men · 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, slave), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 manage | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 manage | aux |
| 3 | manage | manage | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 that | det:predet |
| 5 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 manage | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 manage | punct |
| 7 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 manage | parataxis |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 king | det |
| 10 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 son | nmod:poss |
| 11 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 10 king | case |
| 12 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 bade | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 bade | cc |
| 15 | swinging | swing | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 23 bade | advcl |
| 16 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 15 swinging | obj |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 branch | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 branch | det |
| 19 | lower | low | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 20 branch | amod |
| 20 | branch | branch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 swinging | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 swinging | punct |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 bade | nsubj |
| 23 | bade | bade | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 said | conj |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 slave | nmod:poss |
| 25 | slave | slave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 go | nsubj |
| 26 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 bade | ccomp |
| 27 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 26 go | advmod |
| 28 | into | into | ADP | _ | 30 town | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 town | det |
| 30 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 go | obl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 bring | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 bring | cc |
| 33 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 manage | conj |
| 34 | back | back | ADV | _ | 33 bring | advmod |
| 35 | with | with | ADP | _ | 36 him | case |
| 36 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 bring | obl |
| 37 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 39 men | nummod |
| 38 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 men | amod |
| 39 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 bring | obj |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 litter | cc |
| 41 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 43 litter | det |
| 42 | curtained | curtain | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 43 litter | amod |
| 43 | litter | litter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 men | conj |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 manage | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | manage | future | I | that | vn caring-75.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the king's son | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent son=Topic | |||||
| 3 | swing | gerund | king not said here | king | a lower branch | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent himself=Theme to branch=Trajectory | |||
| 4 | bade | past | king | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | go | infinitive | king's slave | the town | quickly property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into town=Initial_Location | |||
| 6 | bring back | infinitive | I not said here | four strong men and a curtained litter | with king | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument man=Destination | |||
| 7 | curtain | participle | vn concealment-16 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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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