The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 102

Then tell the dog to call me, and chase him from the house.’

Who acts: you · What happens: tell, call, chase · To what, where: dog, me, house · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 tell	advmod
2	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 dog	det
4	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 tell	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 call	mark
6	call	call	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 tell	xcomp
7	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 call	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 chase	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 chase	cc
10	chase	chase	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 tell	conj
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 chase	obj
12	from	from	ADP	_	14 house	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 house	det
14	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 chase	obl
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 tell	punct
16	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	imperative	you not said here		the dog		then	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent dog=Recipient clause=Topic
2	call not said to happen	to-infinitive	you not said here		me			vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient
3	chase	infinitive	you not said here	dog		the house		vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent he=Theme from house=Trajectory

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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