The Red Fairy Book, The Three Princesses of Whiteland, sentence 55

‘When you have these on,’ he said, ‘you will come to my brother, who lives hundreds of miles from here; he is Lord over all the birds in the air—ask him.

Who acts: you, Whiteland, brother · What happens: have, say, come, live, be, ask · To what, where: these, hundreds, Lord, Whiteland · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Princesses of Whiteland. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, Whiteland, brother), 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	_	4 have	punct
2	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 have	advmod
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 have	nsubj
4	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 said	ccomp
5	these	this	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	4 have	obj
6	on	on	ADV	_	4 have	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 have	punct
8	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 have	punct
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 said	nsubj
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 come	punct
12	‘	‘	SCONJ	_	15 come	mark
13	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	15 come	nsubj
14	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 come	aux
15	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 said	ccomp
16	to	to	ADP	_	18 brother	case
17	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 brother	nmod:poss
18	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 come	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 lives	punct
20	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 lives	nsubj
21	lives	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 brother	acl:relcl
22	hundreds	hundred	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 lives	obl:unmarked
23	of	of	ADP	_	24 miles	case
24	miles	mile	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 hundreds	nmod
25	from	from	ADP	_	26 here	case
26	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	24 miles	nmod
27	;	;	PUNCT	_	30 Lord	punct
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 Lord	nsubj
29	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 Lord	cop
30	Lord	Lord	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 come	obl
31	over	over	ADP	_	34 birds	case
32	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	34 birds	det:predet
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 birds	det
34	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 come	obl
35	in	in	ADP	_	37 air	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 air	det
37	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 birds	nmod
38	—	-	PUNCT	_	39 ask	punct
39	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 come	conj
40	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 ask	obj
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	have	present	you	these			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Patient
2	say speech: assert	past	Whiteland				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	come	future	you			to my brother; over all birds in the air	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme to brother=Initial_Location over bird=Destination
4	live	present	my brother	hundreds of miles			vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	is a	present	Whiteland	Lord			tree rules
6	ask speech: ask	infinitive	you not said here		Whiteland		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent 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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