The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 2
‘Then go and bring them here, and I will wait,’ said the king, and the boy ran off and told the sisters that a great chief, with strings of jewels round his neck, had sent for them.
Who acts: I, boy · What happens: go, bring, wait, say, run off, tell · To what, where: girls, king, sisters, great chief · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, boy), 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 go | punct |
| 2 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 go | advmod |
| 3 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 15 said | ccomp |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 bring | cc |
| 5 | bring | bring | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 go | conj |
| 6 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 bring | obj |
| 7 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 bring | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 wait | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 wait | cc |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 wait | nsubj |
| 11 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 wait | aux |
| 12 | wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 go | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 go | punct |
| 14 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 go | punct |
| 15 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 king | det |
| 17 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 said | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 ran | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 ran | cc |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 boy | det |
| 21 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 ran | nsubj |
| 22 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 said | conj |
| 23 | off | off | ADP | _ | 22 ran | compound:prt |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 told | cc |
| 25 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 ran | conj |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 sisters | det |
| 27 | sisters | sister | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 told | iobj |
| 28 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 42 sent | obj |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 chief | det |
| 30 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 chief | amod |
| 31 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 sent | nsubj:pass |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 strings | punct |
| 33 | with | with | ADP | _ | 34 strings | case |
| 34 | strings | string | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 chief | nmod |
| 35 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 jewels | case |
| 36 | jewels | jewel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 strings | nmod |
| 37 | round | round | ADP | _ | 39 neck | case |
| 38 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 39 neck | nmod:poss |
| 39 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 strings | nmod |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 chief | punct |
| 41 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 42 sent | aux |
| 42 | sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 27 sisters | acl:relcl |
| 43 | for | for | ADP | _ | 44 them | case |
| 44 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 42 sent | obl |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | infinitive | then | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | bring | infinitive | girls = girl | here | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent they=Theme | ||||
| 3 | wait | future | I | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | the king | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | run off | past | the boy | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | tell speech: assert | past | the boy not said here | the sisters | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent sister=Recipient | ||||
| 7 | send | past · perfect · passive | a great chief with strings of jewels round boy's neck | for girls = girl | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Destination that=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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