The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 97
‘A guard of soldiers will take you back to your hut,’ said the king.
Who acts: guard · What happens: take, say · To what, where: you, king · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (guard), 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 | _ | 7 take | punct |
| 2 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 guard | det |
| 3 | guard | guard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 take | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 soldiers | case |
| 5 | soldiers | soldier | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 guard | nmod |
| 6 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 take | aux |
| 7 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 said | ccomp |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 take | obj |
| 9 | back | back | ADV | _ | 7 take | advmod |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 hut | case |
| 11 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 hut | nmod:poss |
| 12 | hut | hut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 back | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 take | punct |
| 14 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 take | punct |
| 15 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 king | det |
| 17 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 said | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | future | a guard of soldiers | you | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument you=Destination | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the king | tree rules |
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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