The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 104

His name is Owen the son of Urien, but I have none to send to tell him of my danger, or of a surety he would deliver me.’

Who acts: name, I, none, Owen · What happens: be, have, send, tell, deliver, name · To what, where: Owen son, none, Owen, me · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 31. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (name, I, none, Owen), 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	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 name	nmod:poss
2	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 son	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 son	cop
4	Owen	Owen	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 son	compound
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 son	det
6	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 Urien	case
8	Urien	Urien	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 son	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 have	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 have	cc
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 have	nsubj
12	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 son	parataxis
13	none	none	PRON	PronType=Neg	12 have	obj
14	to	to	PART	_	15 send	mark
15	send	send	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 none	acl
16	to	to	PART	_	17 tell	mark
17	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 send	xcomp
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 tell	iobj
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 danger	case
20	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 danger	nmod:poss
21	danger	danger	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 tell	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 deliver	punct
23	or	or	CCONJ	_	29 deliver	cc
24	of	of	ADP	_	26 surety	case
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 surety	det
26	surety	surety	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 deliver	obl
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 deliver	nsubj
28	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 deliver	aux
29	deliver	deliver	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 have	parataxis
30	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	29 deliver	obj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 son	punct
32	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 son	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Owen's name	the Owen son		of Urien	tree rules
2	have	present	I	none			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent none=Patient
3	send	to-infinitive	I not said here	none not said here			tree rules
4	tell speech: assert	to-infinitive	none not said here		Owen	of my danger	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
5	deliver	would	Owen	me		of a surety	vn send-11.1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent i=Theme of surety=Initial_Location
6	name		Owen				nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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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