The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 38, sentence 65

Forthwith he bade his men fetch him a comb of gold and a scissors with loops of silver, and he combed the hair of Kilweh his guest.

Who acts: Arthur, men · What happens: bade, fetch, comb · To what, where: comb, Arthur, hair

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 38. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Arthur, men), 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	Forthwith	forthwith	ADV	_	3 bade	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 bade	nsubj
3	bade	bade	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 men	nmod:poss
5	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 fetch	nsubj
6	fetch	fetch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 bade	ccomp
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 fetch	obj
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 comb	det
9	comb	comb	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 fetch	obj
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 gold	case
11	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 comb	nmod
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 scissors	cc
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 scissors	det
14	scissors	scissors	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 comb	conj
15	with	with	ADP	_	16 loops	case
16	loops	loop	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 scissors	nmod
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 silver	case
18	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 loops	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 combed	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 combed	cc
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 combed	nsubj
22	combed	comb	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 bade	conj
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 hair	det
24	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 combed	obj
25	of	of	ADP	_	26 Kilweh	case
26	Kilweh	Kilweh	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 hair	nmod
27	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 guest	nmod:poss
28	guest	guest	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 combed	obj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 bade	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	bade	past	Arthur			forthwith property	tree rules
2	fetch	present	Arthur's men	a comb of gold and a scissors with loops of silver	Arthur		vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary comb=Theme
3	comb	past	Arthur	the hair of Kilweh			vn wipe_instr-10.4.2-1 «NP V NP ADJP-Result»: agent=Agent hair=Initial_Location guest=Result

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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