The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 90

‘Await me,’ said Owen, ‘at the gate of the castle, and he cried a challenge to the earl, who came to meet him.

Who acts: Owen, earl · What happens: await, say, cry, come, meet · To what, where: me, challenge, earl, Owen · 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 (Owen, earl), 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 Await	punct
2	Await	await	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 said	ccomp
3	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 Await	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Await	punct
5	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Await	punct
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	Owen	Owen	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 said	nsubj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 gate	punct
9	‘	‘	CCONJ	_	12 gate	cc
10	at	at	ADP	_	12 gate	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 gate	det
12	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 said	ccomp
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 castle	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 castle	det
15	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 gate	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 cried	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 cried	cc
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 cried	nsubj
19	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 said	conj
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 challenge	det
21	challenge	challenge	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 cried	obj
22	to	to	ADP	_	24 earl	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 earl	det
24	earl	earl	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 cried	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 came	punct
26	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 came	nsubj
27	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 earl	acl:relcl
28	to	to	PART	_	29 meet	mark
29	meet	meet	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 came	xcomp
30	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 meet	obj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	await	infinitive		me		tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	Owen			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	cry speech: express	past	Owen	a challenge	the earl	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent challenge=Topic to earl=Recipient
4	come	past	the earl			tree rules
5	meet	to-infinitive	the earl not said here	Owen		vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-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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