The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 39, sentence 98

‘Tell me if thou knowest aught of Mabon the son of Modron, who was taken when three nights old from between his mother and the wall.’

Who acts: you, thou · What happens: tell, know, take · To what, where: me, aught, son · 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 (you, thou), 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 Tell	punct
2	Tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 Tell	iobj
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	6 knowest	mark
5	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	6 knowest	nsubj
6	knowest	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 Tell	ccomp
7	aught	aught	PRON	PronType=Ind	6 knowest	obj
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 Mabon	case
9	Mabon	Mabon	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 aught	nmod
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 son	det
11	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 knowest	obj
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 Modron	case
13	Modron	Modron	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 son	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 taken	punct
15	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 taken	nsubj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 taken	aux:pass
17	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 son	acl
18	when	when	SCONJ	_	21 old	mark
19	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	20 nights	nummod
20	nights	night	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 old	obl:unmarked
21	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 taken	ccomp
22	from	from	ADP	_	25 mother	case
23	between	between	ADP	_	25 mother	case
24	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 mother	nmod:poss
25	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 old	obl
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 wall	cc
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 wall	det
28	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 mother	conj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Tell	punct
30	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	imperative	you not said here		me	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic
2	know a condition, not said to happen	present	thou	aught		tree rules
3	take	past · passive		the son of Modron		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Destination

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/39/98/