The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 38, sentence 76
Then Arthur summoned his five best men and bade them go with Kilweh.
Who acts: Arthur, five best men · What happens: summon, go
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, five best 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 summoned | advmod |
| 2 | Arthur | Arthur | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 summoned | nsubj |
| 3 | summoned | summon | 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 | 7 men | nmod:poss |
| 5 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 men | nummod |
| 6 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 7 men | amod |
| 7 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 go | nsubj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 bade | cc |
| 9 | bade | bade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 men | conj |
| 10 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 bade | obj |
| 11 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 summoned | ccomp |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 Kilweh | case |
| 13 | Kilweh | Kilweh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 go | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 summoned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | summon | past | Arthur | then | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | go | present | Arthur's five best men and bade | with Kilweh | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with kilweh=Beneficiary |
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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