The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 60

When the robbers come and demand the money they gave me for the donkey I shall shout to you and tell you to get it quickly.

Who acts: robbers, I · What happens: come, demand, give, shout, tell, get · To what, where: money, me, you · 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 (robbers, 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 come	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 robbers	det
3	robbers	robber	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 come	nsubj
4	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 demand	cc
6	demand	demand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 come	conj
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 money	det
8	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 demand	obj
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 gave	nsubj
10	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 money	acl:relcl
11	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 gave	iobj
12	for	for	ADP	_	14 donkey	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 donkey	det
14	donkey	donkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 shout	obl
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 shout	nsubj
16	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 shout	aux
17	shout	shout	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 gave	conj
18	to	to	ADP	_	19 you	case
19	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 shout	obl
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 tell	cc
21	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	17 shout	conj
22	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	21 tell	iobj
23	to	to	PART	_	24 get	mark
24	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 tell	xcomp
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 get	obj
26	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	24 get	advmod
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 come	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	come	present	the robbers				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	demand speech: request	present	the robbers not said here	the money			vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme money=Precondition
3	give	past	robbers = robber	the money not said here	me		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme
4	shout speech: express	shall	I		you	for the donkey	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to you=Recipient
5	tell speech: assert	infinitive	I not said here		you		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic
6	get not said to happen	to-infinitive	I not said here	money		quickly property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus

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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