The Red Fairy Book, The Little Good Mouse, sentence 155

So he called his guards and told them to go and fetch Delicia.

Who acts: Prince · What happens: call, tell, go, fetch · To what, where: guards, Delicia · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Little Good Mouse. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prince), 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	_	3 called	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 called	nsubj
3	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 guards	nmod:poss
5	guards	guard	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 called	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 told	cc
7	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 called	conj
8	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 told	iobj
9	to	to	PART	_	10 go	mark
10	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 told	xcomp
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 fetch	cc
12	fetch	fetch	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	10 go	conj
13	Delicia	Delicia	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 fetch	obj
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 called	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	call	past	Prince	Prince's guards		vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent guard=Recipient
2	tell speech: assert	past	Prince not said here		guards = guard	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic
3	go not said to happen	to-infinitive	Prince not said here			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	fetch	infinitive	Prince not said here	Delicia		vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent delicia=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 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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