The Red Fairy Book, Brother and Sister, sentence 72
When the sun had set the King said to his huntsman, ‘Now come and show me the little house in the wood.’
Who acts: King · What happens: set, say, come, show · To what, where: sun, little house, me, wood · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Brother and Sister. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 set | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 sun | det |
| 3 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 set | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 set | aux |
| 5 | set | set | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 said | ccomp |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 King | det |
| 7 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 said | nsubj |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 huntsman | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 huntsman | nmod:poss |
| 11 | huntsman | huntsman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 come | punct |
| 13 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 come | punct |
| 14 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 15 come | advmod |
| 15 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 said | ccomp |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 show | cc |
| 17 | show | show | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 come | conj |
| 18 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 show | iobj |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 house | det |
| 20 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 house | amod |
| 21 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 show | obj |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 wood | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 wood | det |
| 24 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 house | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 come | punct |
| 26 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set | past · perfect · passive | the sun | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Result | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the King | to King's huntsman | vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to huntsman=Experiencer clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | come | infinitive | now | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | show | infinitive | the little house | me | the wood | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient house=Topic |
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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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