The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 11

After the eleven were gone Esben went to his father and said, ‘Father, give me also a horse and money; I should also like to see round about me in the world.’

Who acts: eleven, Esben, Father, I · What happens: be, go, say, give, like, see · To what, where: horse, me, world · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (eleven, Esben, Father, 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	After	after	SCONJ	_	5 gone	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 eleven	det
3	eleven	eleven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 gone	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 gone	cop
5	gone	gone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	Esben	Esben	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 went	nsubj
7	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 gone	ccomp
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 father	case
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 father	nmod:poss
10	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 went	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 said	cc
12	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 went	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 Father	punct
14	‘	‘	ADP	_	15 Father	case
15	Father	Father	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 give	nsubj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 Father	punct
17	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 said	ccomp
18	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 give	iobj
19	also	also	ADV	_	21 horse	advmod
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 horse	det
21	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 give	obj
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 money	cc
23	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 horse	conj
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 like	punct
25	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 like	nsubj
26	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 like	aux
27	also	also	ADV	_	28 like	advmod
28	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 gone	parataxis
29	to	to	PART	_	30 see	mark
30	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 like	xcomp
31	round	round	ADV	_	30 see	advmod
32	about	about	ADP	_	33 me	case
33	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	30 see	obl
34	in	in	ADP	_	36 world	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 world	det
36	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 see	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	28 like	punct
38	’	'	PUNCT	_	28 like	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	the eleven				gone property	tree rules
2	go	past	Esben				to man's father	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to father=Initial_Location
3	say speech: assert	past	Esben not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	give	infinitive	Father	a horse and money	me			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient horse=Theme
5	like	should	I					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
6	see not said to happen	to-infinitive	I not said here			the world	about me; round property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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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