The Red Fairy Book, The Norka, sentence 6

So at last he called his sons together and said, ‘Whoever will destroy the Norka, to him will I give the half of my kingdom.’

Who acts: Norka, Whoever, I · What happens: call, say, destroy, give · To what, where: sons, Norka, half · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Norka. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Norka, Whoever, I), 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	So	so	ADV	_	5 called	advmod
2	at	at	ADP	_	3 last	case
3	last	last	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 called	obl
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 called	nsubj
5	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 sons	nmod:poss
7	sons	son	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 called	obj
8	together	together	ADV	_	5 called	advmod
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 said	cc
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 called	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 destroy	punct
12	‘	'	PUNCT	_	15 destroy	punct
13	Whoever	whoever	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 destroy	nsubj
14	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 destroy	aux
15	destroy	destroy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 said	ccomp
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 Norka	det
17	Norka	Norka	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 destroy	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 give	punct
19	to	to	ADP	_	20 him	case
20	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 give	obl
21	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 give	aux
22	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 give	nsubj
23	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 destroy	conj
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 half	det
25	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	23 give	obj
26	of	of	ADP	_	28 kingdom	case
27	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 kingdom	nmod:poss
28	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 half	nmod
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 called	punct
30	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 called	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	call	past	Norka	Norka's sons		at last; together property	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme PP.recipient PP.stimulus»: agent=Agent son=Theme at last=Stimulus
2	say speech: assert	past	Norka not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	destroy	future	Whoever	the Norka			vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent norka=Patient
4	give	future	I	the half of my kingdom	Norka		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent half=Theme to he=Recipient

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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