The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 14

‘To-morrow at midday,’ said the countess, ‘and I will cause all the people in the town to come together.’

Who acts: I · What happens: say, cause, come together · To what, where: countess, morrow, people, town · 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 (I), 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	_	9 said	punct
2	To	to	ADP	_	4 morrow	case
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 To	punct
4	morrow	morrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 said	obl
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 midday	case
6	midday	midday	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 morrow	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 morrow	punct
8	’	'	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 countess	det
11	countess	countess	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 said	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 ‘	punct
13	‘	‘	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 countess	conj
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 cause	cc
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 cause	nsubj
16	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 cause	aux
17	cause	cause	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 said	conj
18	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	20 people	det:predet
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 people	det
20	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 cause	obj
21	in	in	ADP	_	23 town	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 town	det
23	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 people	nmod
24	to	to	PART	_	25 come	mark
25	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 cause	advcl
26	together	together	ADV	_	25 come	advmod
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct
28	’	'	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past		the countess and ‘	morrow at midday			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent countess=Topic to morrow=Recipient
2	cause	future	I	all people		the town		vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition people=Patient
3	come together	to-infinitive	I not said here				together property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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