The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 100

‘Say on, I will do them,’ replied the prince, and the giant left the house, and bade him follow to the byre, where the cows were kept.

Who acts: you, I, giant · What happens: say, do, reply, leave, follow, keep · To what, where: things, prince, house, bade, byre, cows · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, I, giant), 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 Say	punct
2	Say	say	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	on	on	ADV	_	2 Say	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 do	punct
5	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 do	nsubj
6	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 do	aux
7	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 Say	conj
8	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 do	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 replied	punct
10	’	'	PUNCT	_	11 replied	punct
11	replied	reply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 Say	parataxis
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 prince	det
13	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 replied	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 left	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 left	cc
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 giant	det
17	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 left	nsubj
18	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 replied	conj
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 house	det
20	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 left	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 follow	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 follow	cc
23	bade	bade	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 follow	obl
24	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 bade	obj
25	follow	follow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 Say	advcl
26	to	to	ADP	_	28 byre	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 byre	det
28	byre	byre	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 follow	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 kept	punct
30	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	34 kept	advmod
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 cows	det
32	cows	cow	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 kept	nsubj:pass
33	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 kept	aux:pass
34	kept	keep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 byre	acl:relcl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Say	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	say speech: assert	imperative	you not said here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	do	future	I	things = thing		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Eventuality
3	reply speech: assert	past		the prince		vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent prince=Topic
4	leave	past	the giant	the house		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Theme
5	follow	present	you not said here	bade	the byre	vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent to byre=Trajectory
6	keep	past · passive		the cows		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=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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