The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 97

That, sire, I can now tell you,’ and the young man paused and looked at the king, who coloured deeply.

Who acts: sire, young man, king · What happens: tell, pause, look, colour · To what, where: you · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (sire, young man, king), 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	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 sire	det
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 sire	punct
3	sire	sire	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 tell	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 sire	punct
5	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 tell	nsubj
6	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 tell	aux
7	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 tell	advmod
8	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 tell	iobj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 tell	punct
11	’	'	PUNCT	_	8 tell	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 paused	cc
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 man	det
14	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 man	amod
15	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 paused	nsubj
16	paused	pause	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 tell	conj
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 looked	cc
18	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 paused	conj
19	at	at	ADP	_	21 king	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 king	det
21	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 looked	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 coloured	punct
23	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 coloured	nsubj
24	coloured	colour	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 king	acl:relcl
25	deeply	deeply	ADV	_	24 coloured	advmod
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	can	that sire	you	now		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient
2	pause	past	the young man				vn linger-53.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent
3	look	past	the young man not said here			at the king	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at king=Theme
4	colour	past	the king			deeply property	tree rules

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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