The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 56

‘Let me finish my tale first, and then you will know,’ answered she, throwing back her veil, and she told how her brother had come to the palace and accused her of being a witch, and had tried to persuade the king to slay her.

Who acts: me, you, news, brother, my · What happens: let, finish, know, answer, throw back, tell · To what, where: me, tale, news, veil, palace, king · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (me, you, news, brother), 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 Let	punct
2	Let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 answered	ccomp
3	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 Let	obj
4	finish	finish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 Let	xcomp
5	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 tale	nmod:poss
6	tale	tale	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 finish	obj
7	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	4 finish	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 know	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 know	cc
10	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	13 know	advmod
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 know	nsubj
12	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 know	aux
13	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 Let	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Let	punct
15	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Let	punct
16	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 answered	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 throwing	punct
19	throwing	throw	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 answered	advcl
20	back	back	ADV	_	19 throwing	advmod
21	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 veil	nmod:poss
22	veil	veil	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 throwing	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 told	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 told	cc
25	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 told	nsubj
26	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 answered	parataxis
27	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	31 come	advmod
28	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 brother	nmod:poss
29	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 come	nsubj
30	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 come	aux
31	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	26 told	ccomp
32	to	to	ADP	_	34 palace	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 palace	det
34	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 come	obl
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 accused	cc
36	accused	accuse	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 come	conj
37	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 accused	obj
38	of	of	ADP	_	41 witch	case
39	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	41 witch	cop
40	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	41 witch	det
41	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 accused	obl
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 tried	punct
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 tried	cc
44	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	45 tried	aux
45	tried	try	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	26 told	conj
46	to	to	PART	_	47 persuade	mark
47	persuade	persuade	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	45 tried	xcomp
48	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	49 king	det
49	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 persuade	obj
50	to	to	PART	_	51 slay	mark
51	slay	slay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	47 persuade	advcl
52	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	51 slay	obj
53	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	let	infinitive		me					tree rules
2	finish	infinitive	me not said here	my tale				first property	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality tale=Eventuality
3	know	future	you				then		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	answer speech: assert	past			news				tree rules
5	throw back	gerund		news's veil					vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent veil=Theme
6	tell speech: assert	past	news						vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
7	come	past · perfect	news's brother			the palace			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to palace=Initial_Location
8	accuse	past	news's brother not said here	news					vn suspect-81 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent she=Theme
9	is	gerund						of a witch	tree rules
10	try	past · perfect	news not said here						vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
11	persuade not said to happen	to-infinitive	news not said here	the king					vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent king=Patient
12	slay	to-infinitive	news not said here	news					vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient
13	tell		my						nom tale «communication intransitive»: poss=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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