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The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 8

‘Go and seek the priest who lives near the door of the prison, and ask him where you can find the old woman who visited him last night; and when you have found her, bring her to the palace.’

Who acts: you, priest, old woman · What happens: go, seek, live, ask, find, visit · To what, where: priest, door, king, old woman, woman, palace

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, priest, old woman), 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

punctccconjdetobjnsubjacl:relclcasedetoblcasedetnmodpunctccconjobjadvmodnsubjauxadvcldetamodobjnsubjacl:relclobjamodobl:unmarkedpunctccadvmodnsubjauxadvclobjpunctconjobjcasedetoblpunctpunctroot‘PUNCTGoVERBandCCONJseekVERBtheDETpriestNOUNwhoPRONlivesVERBnearADPtheDETdoorNOUNofADPtheDETprisonNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJaskVERBhimPRONwhereADVyouPRONcanAUXfindVERBtheDEToldADJwomanNOUNwhoPRONvisitedVERBhimPRONlastADJnightNOUN;PUNCTandCCONJwhenADVyouPRONhaveAUXfoundVERBherPRON,PUNCTbringVERBherPRONtoADPtheDETpalaceNOUN.PUNCT’PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1‘'PUNCT_2 Gopunct
2GogoVERBMood=Imp VerbForm=Finrootroot
3andandCCONJ_4 seekcc
4seekseekVERBMood=Imp VerbForm=Fin2 Goconj
5thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art6 priestdet
6priestpriestNOUNNumber=Sing4 seekobj
7whowhoPRONPronType=Rel8 livesnsubj
8livesliveVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin6 priestacl:relcl
9nearnearADP_11 doorcase
10thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art11 doordet
11doordoorNOUNNumber=Sing8 livesobl
12ofofADP_14 prisoncase
13thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art14 prisondet
14prisonprisonNOUNNumber=Sing11 doornmod
15,,PUNCT_17 askpunct
16andandCCONJ_17 askcc
17askaskVERBMood=Imp VerbForm=Fin4 seekconj
18himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs17 askobj
19wherewhereADVPronType=Rel22 findadvmod
20youyouPRONCase=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs22 findnsubj
21cancanAUXVerbForm=Fin22 findaux
22findfindVERBVerbForm=Inf17 askadvcl
23thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art25 womandet
24oldoldADJDegree=Pos25 womanamod
25womanwomanNOUNNumber=Sing22 findobj
26whowhoPRONPronType=Rel27 visitednsubj
27visitedvisitVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin25 womanacl:relcl
28himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs27 visitedobj
29lastlastADJDegree=Pos30 nightamod
30nightnightNOUNNumber=Sing27 visitedobl:unmarked
31;;PUNCT_36 foundpunct
32andandCCONJ_36 foundcc
33whenwhenADVPronType=Int36 foundadvmod
34youyouPRONCase=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs36 foundnsubj
35havehaveAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin36 foundaux
36foundfindVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part2 Goadvcl
37hershePRONCase=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs36 foundobj
38,,PUNCT_39 bringpunct
39bringbringVERBMood=Imp VerbForm=Fin2 Goconj
40hershePRONCase=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs39 bringobj
41totoADP_43 palacecase
42thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art43 palacedet
43palacepalaceNOUNNumber=Sing39 bringobl
44..PUNCT_2 Gopunct
45’'PUNCT_2 Gopunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1goimperativeyou not said herevn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2seekinfinitiveyou not said herethe priestvn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent priest=Theme
3livepresentthe priestthe door of the prisonvn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme near door=Location
4ask speech: askinfinitiveyou not said herekingvn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
5findcanyouthe old womanvn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent woman=Topic
6visitpastthe old womankingnightvn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent
7findpresent · perfectyouwomanvn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Topic
8bringinfinitiveyou not said herewomanthe palacevn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme to palace=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.

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