The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 104

‘Come with me, then,’ answered he; ‘the servants are all my friends, and they will let you stand in the passage down which the king’s son will pass, and all the company too.’

Who acts: you, servants, son · What happens: come, answer, be, let, stand down, pass · To what, where: company, shoemaker, friends, you, passage

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, servants, son), 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 Come	punct
2	Come	come	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	with	with	ADP	_	4 me	case
4	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 Come	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Come	punct
6	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 Come	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 answered	punct
8	’	'	PUNCT	_	9 answered	punct
9	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 Come	parataxis
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 answered	obj
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 friends	punct
12	‘	'	PUNCT	_	18 friends	punct
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 servants	det
14	servants	servant	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 friends	nsubj
15	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 friends	cop
16	all	all	ADV	_	18 friends	advmod
17	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 friends	nmod:poss
18	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 Come	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 let	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 let	cc
21	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 let	nsubj
22	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 let	aux
23	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 Come	parataxis
24	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	23 let	obj
25	stand	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 let	xcomp
26	in	in	ADP	_	28 passage	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 passage	det
28	passage	passage	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 stand	obl
29	down	down	ADP	_	25 stand	compound:prt
30	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	36 pass	obj
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 king	det
32	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 son	nmod:poss
33	’s	's	PART	_	32 king	case
34	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 pass	nsubj
35	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	36 pass	aux
36	pass	pass	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 stand	conj
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 company	punct
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 company	cc
39	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	41 company	det:predet
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 company	det
41	company	company	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Come	obl
42	too	too	ADV	_	2 Come	advmod
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Come	punct
44	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Come	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	imperative	you not said here	all company			then	with me	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	answer speech: assert	past			shoemaker				vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent he=Eventuality
3	is a	present	the servants	my friends				all property	tree rules
4	let	future	servants = servant	you					tree rules
5	stand down	infinitive	you not said here			the passage			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in passage=Location
6	pass	future	the king's son						vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme which=Trajectory

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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