The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 7
Go and announce this in the ballroom,’ he added to an attendant, ‘and bring the fellow hither.’
Who acts: you, Man · What happens: go, announce, add, bring · To what, where: this, ballroom, fellow
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, Man), 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 | Go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 announce | cc |
| 3 | announce | announce | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Go | conj |
| 4 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 announce | obj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 ballroom | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 ballroom | det |
| 7 | ballroom | ballroom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 announce | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 added | punct |
| 9 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 added | punct |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 added | nsubj |
| 11 | added | add | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Go | parataxis |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 attendant | case |
| 13 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 attendant | det |
| 14 | attendant | attendant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 added | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 ‘ | punct |
| 16 | ‘ | ‘ | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 attendant | conj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 bring | cc |
| 18 | bring | bring | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Go | conj |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 fellow | det |
| 20 | fellow | fellow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 bring | obj |
| 21 | hither | hither | ADV | _ | 18 bring | advmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Go | punct |
| 23 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 1 Go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | imperative | you not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | announce speech: other | infinitive | you not said here | this | the ballroom | vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Theme | |||
| 3 | add speech: assert | past | Man | to a attendant and ‘ | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent to attendant=Co-Patient | ||||
| 4 | bring | infinitive | you not said here | the fellow | hither property | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument fellow=Destination |
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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