The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 44

The king then had the eleven brothers called before him, and said to them, ‘You have said that you can get me a dove which has feathers of gold and silver time about.’

Who acts: king, You, dove · What happens: have, call, say, get · To what, where: eleven brothers, brothers, dove, me, feathers · 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 (king, You, dove), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 king	det
2	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 had	nsubj
3	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 had	advmod
4	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 brothers	det
6	eleven	eleven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 brothers	nummod
7	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 had	obj
8	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 brothers	acl
9	before	before	ADP	_	10 him	case
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 called	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 said	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 said	cc
13	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 had	conj
14	to	to	ADP	_	15 them	case
15	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 said	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 said	punct
17	‘	'	PUNCT	_	20 said	punct
18	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	20 said	nsubj
19	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 said	aux
20	said	say	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	13 said	ccomp
21	that	that	SCONJ	_	24 get	mark
22	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	24 get	nsubj
23	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 get	aux
24	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 said	ccomp
25	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 get	obj
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 dove	det
27	dove	dove	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 get	obj
28	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 has	nsubj
29	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 dove	acl:relcl
30	feathers	feather	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 has	obj
31	of	of	ADP	_	32 gold	case
32	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 feathers	nmod
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 time	cc
34	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 time	compound
35	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 gold	conj
36	about	about	ADV	_	29 has	advmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 had	punct
38	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	the king	the eleven brothers		then		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brother=Patient
2	call	participle		the eleven brothers not said here		before king		vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	say speech: assert	past	the king not said here		brothers = brother			vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to they=Experiencer clause=Topic
4	say speech: assert	present · perfect	You					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	get	can	you	a dove	me			vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary dove=Theme
6	have	present	a dove	feathers of gold and silver time			about property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feather=Patient

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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