The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 39, sentence 96

They told Arthur how they had sped, and they all took counsel together, and agreed that they must set out on the quest for Mabon the son of Modron, and Gwrhyr, who knew the languages of beasts and of birds, went with them.

Who acts: men, Gwrhyr · What happens: tell, speed, take, agree, set out, know · To what, where: Arthur, counsel, quest, languages · 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 (men, Gwrhyr), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 told	nsubj
2	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Arthur	Arthur	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 told	iobj
4	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	7 sped	advmod
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 sped	nsubj
6	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 sped	aux
7	sped	speed	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 told	ccomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 took	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 took	cc
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 took	nsubj
11	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	12 took	advmod
12	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 told	conj
13	counsel	counsel	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 took	obj
14	together	together	ADV	_	12 took	advmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 agreed	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 agreed	cc
17	agreed	agree	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 took	conj
18	that	that	SCONJ	_	21 set	mark
19	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 set	nsubj
20	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 set	aux
21	set	set	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 agreed	ccomp
22	out	out	ADP	_	21 set	compound:prt
23	on	on	ADP	_	25 quest	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 quest	det
25	quest	quest	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 set	obl
26	for	for	ADP	_	27 Mabon	case
27	Mabon	Mabon	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 quest	nmod
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 son	det
29	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 Mabon	appos
30	of	of	ADP	_	31 Modron	case
31	Modron	Modron	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 son	nmod
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 knew	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 knew	cc
34	Gwrhyr	Gwrhyr	PROPN	Number=Sing	37 knew	nsubj
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 knew	punct
36	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	37 knew	nsubj
37	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 told	parataxis
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 languages	det
39	languages	language	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 knew	obj
40	of	of	ADP	_	41 beasts	case
41	beasts	beast	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 languages	nmod
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 birds	cc
43	of	of	ADP	_	44 birds	case
44	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	41 beasts	conj
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 went	punct
46	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 told	parataxis
47	with	with	ADP	_	48 them	case
48	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 went	obl
49	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	men = man		Arthur			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent arthur=Recipient clause=Topic
2	speed	past · perfect	men = man					vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	take	past	men = man	counsel			together property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent counsel=Theme
4	agree speech: agree	past	men = man not said here					vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	set out	must	men = man			the quest for Mabon		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	know	past	Gwrhyr	the languages of beasts and birds				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer language=Stimulus
7	go	past					with men = man	vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with they=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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