The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 39, sentence 75

‘Bid the man come before me,’ cried Gwrnach, when the porter had told his tale, ‘for my sword stands much in need of polishing,’ so Kai passed in and saluted Gwrnach the giant.

Who acts: Kai, need, giant · What happens: bid, come, cry, tell, stand, polish · To what, where: man, porter, tale, need, Gwrnach · 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 (Kai, need, giant), 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 Bid	punct
2	Bid	bid	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 cried	ccomp
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 man	det
4	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Bid	obj
5	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 Bid	xcomp
6	before	before	ADP	_	7 me	case
7	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 come	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Bid	punct
9	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Bid	punct
10	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	Gwrnach	Gwrnach	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 cried	flat
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 told	punct
13	when	when	SCONJ	_	17 told	mark
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 porter	det
15	porter	porter	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 told	nsubj:pass
16	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 told	aux
17	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 cried	conj
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 tale	nmod:poss
19	tale	tale	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 told	iobj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 stands	punct
21	‘	'	PUNCT	_	25 stands	punct
22	for	for	ADP	_	24 sword	case
23	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 sword	nmod:poss
24	sword	sword	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 stands	obl
25	stands	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	35 passed	advcl
26	much	much	ADV	_	25 stands	advmod
27	in	in	ADP	_	28 need	case
28	need	need	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 stands	obl
29	of	of	SCONJ	_	30 polishing	mark
30	polishing	polish	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	28 need	acl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 polishing	punct
32	’	'	PUNCT	_	25 stands	punct
33	so	so	ADV	_	35 passed	advmod
34	Kai	Kai	PROPN	Number=Sing	35 passed	nsubj
35	passed	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 cried	parataxis
36	in	in	ADV	_	35 passed	advmod
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 saluted	cc
38	saluted	salute	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 passed	conj
39	Gwrnach	Gwrnach	PROPN	Number=Sing	38 saluted	obj
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 giant	det
41	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 saluted	obj
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bid	infinitive		the man					tree rules
2	come	infinitive					before me		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before i=Location
3	cry speech: express	past							vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	tell speech: assert	past · perfect · passive		the porter	giant's tale				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient tale=Topic
5	stand	present	Kai not said here			need		for my sword	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in need=Location
6	polish	gerund	need not said here						vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent
7	pass	past	Kai						vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	salute	past	Kai not said here	Gwrnach					tree rules
9	tell		giant						nom tale «communication intransitive»: poss=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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