The Blue Fairy Book, The Brave Little Tailor, sentence 112

He took a piece of cord and an axe with him, went out to the wood, and again told the men who had been sent with him to remain outside.

Who acts: unicorn · What happens: take, go out, tell, send, remain · To what, where: piece, men · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brave Little Tailor. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (unicorn), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 took	nsubj
2	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 piece	det
4	piece	piece	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 took	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 cord	case
6	cord	cord	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 piece	nmod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 axe	cc
8	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 axe	det
9	axe	axe	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cord	conj
10	with	with	ADP	_	11 him	case
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 axe	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 went	punct
13	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 took	conj
14	out	out	ADV	_	13 went	advmod
15	to	to	ADP	_	17 wood	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 wood	det
17	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 went	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 told	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 told	cc
20	again	again	ADV	_	21 told	advmod
21	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 took	conj
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 men	det
23	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 told	obj
24	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 sent	nsubj:pass
25	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 sent	aux
26	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	27 sent	aux:pass
27	sent	send	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 men	acl:relcl
28	with	with	ADP	_	29 him	case
29	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 sent	obl
30	to	to	PART	_	31 remain	mark
31	remain	remain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 sent	advcl
32	outside	outside	ADV	_	31 remain	advmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	take	past	unicorn	a piece of cord and a axe with seven				vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent piece=Theme
2	go out	past	unicorn not said here				to the wood; out property	vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	tell speech: assert	past	unicorn not said here		the men	again		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent man=Recipient
4	send	past · perfect · passive		the men			with unicorn	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
5	remain	to-infinitive					outside property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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