The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 96

They told him that a messenger had come from the squire at Devilmoss to demand three years’ tribute.

Who acts: compliments, messenger · What happens: tell, come, demand · To what, where: Hans, tribute · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (compliments, messenger), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 told	nsubj
2	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 told	iobj
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 come	mark
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 messenger	det
6	messenger	messenger	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 come	nsubj
7	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 come	aux
8	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 told	ccomp
9	from	from	ADP	_	11 squire	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 squire	det
11	squire	squire	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 come	obl
12	at	at	ADP	_	13 Devilmoss	case
13	Devilmoss	Devilmoss	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 squire	nmod
14	to	to	PART	_	15 demand	mark
15	demand	demand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 come	advcl
16	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 years	nummod
17	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 tribute	nmod:poss
18	’	's	PART	_	17 years	case
19	tribute	tribute	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 demand	obj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	compliments = compliment		Hans		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
2	come	past · perfect	a messenger			from the squire at Devilmoss	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from squire=Initial_Location
3	demand speech: request	to-infinitive	a messenger not said here	three years's tribute			vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme tribute=Precondition

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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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