The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 20, sentence 6

And the youth was glad, and called the strong man, and told him what he must do.

Who acts: youth, man · What happens: be, call, tell, do · To what, where: strong man, man · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (youth, man), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	5 glad	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 youth	det
3	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 glad	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 glad	cop
5	glad	glad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 called	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 called	cc
8	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 glad	parataxis
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 man	det
10	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 man	amod
11	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 called	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 told	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 told	cc
14	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 called	conj
15	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 told	iobj
16	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	19 do	obj
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 do	nsubj
18	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 do	aux
19	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 told	ccomp
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 glad	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	the youth		glad property	tree rules
2	call	past		the strong man		vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent man=Recipient
3	tell speech: assert	past		man		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
4	do	must	man			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

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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