The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 25

‘Tell my father and mother that I have a fever, and want some gruel,’ said he, ‘and bid them send it quickly.’

Who acts: I, slave · What happens: tell, have, want, say, bid, send · To what, where: father, fever, gruel · 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, 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	2 Tell	punct
2	Tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 said	ccomp
3	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 father	nmod:poss
4	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Tell	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 mother	cc
6	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 father	conj
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 have	mark
8	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 have	nsubj
9	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 Tell	advcl
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 fever	det
11	fever	fever	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 have	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 want	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 want	cc
14	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 Tell	ccomp
15	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	16 gruel	det
16	gruel	gruel	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 want	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 want	punct
18	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Tell	punct
19	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 said	nsubj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 said	punct
22	‘	‘	PUNCT	_	24 bid	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 bid	cc
24	bid	bid	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	19 said	parataxis
25	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 bid	obj
26	send	send	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 bid	xcomp
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 send	obj
28	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	26 send	advmod
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	24 bid	punct
30	’	'	PUNCT	_	24 bid	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	infinitive			my father and mother		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent father=Recipient clause=Topic
2	have	present	I	a fever			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fever=Patient
3	want	present		some gruel			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot gruel=Theme
4	say speech: assert	past	slave				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	bid	infinitive		father			tree rules
6	send	infinitive		gruel		quickly property	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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