The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 39, sentence 134

Then they sent a messenger to Arthur to tell him that Mabon was found, and he brought all his warriors to the castle of Gloucester and fell fiercely upon it; while Kai and Bedwyr went on the shoulders of the salmon to the gate of the dungeon, and broke it down and carried away Mabon.

Who acts: silver, Mabon, Kai · What happens: send, tell, find, bring, fall, go · To what, where: messenger, Arthur, Mabon, warriors, castle, shoulders · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 39. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (silver, Mabon, Kai), 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 sent	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 sent	nsubj
3	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 messenger	det
5	messenger	messenger	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sent	obj
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 Arthur	case
7	Arthur	Arthur	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 sent	obl
8	to	to	PART	_	9 tell	mark
9	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 sent	advcl
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 tell	iobj
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 found	mark
12	Mabon	Mabon	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 found	nsubj:pass
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 found	aux:pass
14	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 tell	advcl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 brought	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 brought	cc
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 brought	nsubj
18	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sent	conj
19	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	21 warriors	det:predet
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 warriors	nmod:poss
21	warriors	warrior	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 brought	obj
22	to	to	ADP	_	24 castle	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 castle	det
24	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 brought	obl
25	of	of	ADP	_	26 Gloucester	case
26	Gloucester	Gloucester	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 castle	nmod
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 fell	cc
28	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sent	conj
29	fiercely	fiercely	ADV	_	28 fell	advmod
30	upon	upon	ADP	_	31 it	case
31	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 fell	obl
32	;	;	PUNCT	_	37 went	punct
33	while	while	SCONJ	_	37 went	mark
34	Kai	Kai	PROPN	Number=Sing	37 went	nsubj
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 Bedwyr	cc
36	Bedwyr	Bedwyr	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 Kai	conj
37	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sent	conj
38	on	on	ADP	_	40 shoulders	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 shoulders	det
40	shoulders	shoulder	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 went	obl
41	of	of	ADP	_	43 salmon	case
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 salmon	det
43	salmon	salmon	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 shoulders	nmod
44	to	to	ADP	_	46 gate	case
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 gate	det
46	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 went	obl
47	of	of	ADP	_	49 dungeon	case
48	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	49 dungeon	det
49	dungeon	dungeon	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 gate	nmod
50	,	,	PUNCT	_	52 broke	punct
51	and	and	CCONJ	_	52 broke	cc
52	broke	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sent	parataxis
53	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	52 broke	obj
54	down	down	ADP	_	52 broke	compound:prt
55	and	and	CCONJ	_	56 carried	cc
56	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	52 broke	conj
57	away	away	ADV	_	56 carried	advmod
58	Mabon	Mabon	PROPN	Number=Sing	56 carried	obj
59	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 sent	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	send	past	silver	a messenger	Arthur		then		vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent messenger=Theme to arthur=Destination
2	tell speech: assert	to-infinitive	silver not said here		Mabon				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
3	find	past · passive		Mabon					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic
4	bring	past	Mabon	Mabon's warriors		the castle of Gloucester			vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent warrior=Theme to castle=Destination
5	fall	past	silver not said here			messenger		fiercely property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme upon it=Location
6	go	past	Kai and Bedwyr			the shoulders of the salmon		to the gate of the dungeon	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to gate=Initial_Location
7	break down	past		messenger					vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
8	carry away	past		Mabon				away property	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mabon=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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