The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 58

‘If I have a boy thou shalt get him,’ answered the king’s son, and as he spoke the castle and the orchard were tied up in the bundle again.

Who acts: I, thou, boy · What happens: have, get, answer, speak, tie up · To what, where: boy, son, castle, orchard, bundle · 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 (I, thou, 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	_	13 answered	punct
2	If	if	SCONJ	_	4 have	mark
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 have	nsubj
4	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 answered	advcl
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 boy	det
6	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 have	obj
7	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	9 get	nsubj
8	shalt	shall	AUX	Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin	9 get	aux
9	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 boy	acl:relcl
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 get	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 have	punct
12	’	'	PUNCT	_	13 answered	punct
13	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 king	det
15	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 son	nmod:poss
16	’s	's	PART	_	15 king	case
17	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 answered	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 spoke	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 spoke	cc
20	as	as	SCONJ	_	22 spoke	mark
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 spoke	nsubj
22	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 answered	parataxis
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 castle	det
24	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 spoke	obj
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 tied	cc
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 orchard	det
27	orchard	orchard	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 tied	nsubj:pass
28	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 tied	aux:pass
29	tied	tie	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 spoke	conj
30	up	up	ADP	_	29 tied	compound:prt
31	in	in	ADP	_	33 bundle	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 bundle	det
33	bundle	bundle	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 tied	obl
34	again	again	ADV	_	29 tied	advmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	roles by
1	have a condition, not said to happen	present	I	a boy				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boy=Patient
2	get	shall	thou	boy				vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus
3	answer speech: assert	past			the king's son			vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent son=Eventuality
4	speak speech: other	past	boy	the castle				tree rules
5	tie up	past · passive		the orchard		the bundle	again	vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: subject=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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