The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 25, sentence 30

They were just going when the old man turned round, smiled mischievously with his crooked mouth, and said: ‘Greetings to Otto from me, and tell him when I meet him again I shall do him the honour of eating him up.’

Who acts: children, old man, I, honour · What happens: go, turn round, smile, say, tell, meet · To what, where: old man, Greetings, Otto, man · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (children, old man, I, honour), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 going	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 going	aux
3	just	just	ADV	_	4 going	advmod
4	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	12 smiled	advmod
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 man	det
7	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 man	amod
8	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 smiled	nsubj
9	turned	turn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 man	acl
10	round	round	ADV	_	9 turned	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 man	punct
12	smiled	smile	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 going	advcl
13	mischievously	mischievously	ADV	_	12 smiled	advmod
14	with	with	ADP	_	17 mouth	case
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 mouth	nmod:poss
16	crooked	crooked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 mouth	amod
17	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 smiled	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 said	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 said	cc
20	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 going	parataxis
21	:	:	PUNCT	_	23 Greetings	punct
22	‘	'	PUNCT	_	23 Greetings	punct
23	Greetings	greeting	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 said	obj
24	to	to	ADP	_	25 Otto	case
25	Otto	Otto	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 Greetings	nmod
26	from	from	ADP	_	27 me	case
27	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 Greetings	nmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 tell	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 tell	cc
30	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 said	conj
31	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 tell	iobj
32	when	when	SCONJ	_	34 meet	mark
33	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	34 meet	nsubj
34	meet	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	39 do	advcl
35	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 meet	obj
36	again	again	ADV	_	34 meet	advmod
37	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	39 do	nsubj
38	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	39 do	aux
39	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 tell	ccomp
40	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 do	obj
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 honour	det
42	honour	honour	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 do	obj
43	of	of	SCONJ	_	44 eating	mark
44	eating	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	42 honour	acl
45	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 eating	obj
46	up	up	ADP	_	44 eating	compound:prt
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 going	punct
48	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 going	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	go	past · progressive	children = child					vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	turn round	participle		the old man not said here			round property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
3	smile	past	the old man				with man's crooked mouth; mischievously property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	say speech: assert	past		Greetings	Otto		from me	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent greeting=Topic to otto=Recipient
5	tell speech: assert	infinitive			man			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
6	meet	present	I	man		again		vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent
7	do	shall	I	man				tree rules
8	eat up	gerund	the honour not said here	man				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient

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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