The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 72

The king again summoned the brothers before him, and asked whether it was true that they had said that they could get for him a boar whose bristles were of gold and silver time about.

Who acts: king, dove, brothers, bristles · What happens: summon, ask, be, say, get · To what, where: brothers, boar · 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, dove, brothers, bristles), 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 summoned	nsubj
3	again	again	ADV	_	4 summoned	advmod
4	summoned	summon	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 brothers	det
6	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 summoned	obj
7	before	before	ADP	_	8 him	case
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 summoned	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 asked	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 asked	cc
11	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 summoned	conj
12	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	15 true	mark
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 true	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 true	cop
15	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 asked	ccomp
16	that	that	SCONJ	_	19 said	mark
17	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 said	nsubj
18	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 said	aux
19	said	say	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	15 true	parataxis
20	that	that	SCONJ	_	23 get	mark
21	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 get	nsubj
22	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 get	aux
23	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 said	ccomp
24	for	for	ADP	_	25 him	case
25	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 get	obl
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 boar	det
27	boar	boar	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 get	obj
28	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	29 bristles	nmod:poss
29	bristles	bristle	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 gold	nsubj
30	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 gold	cop
31	of	of	ADP	_	32 gold	case
32	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 boar	acl:relcl
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	_	35 time	advmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 summoned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	summon	past	the king		the brothers	before Red; again		vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brother=Recipient
2	ask speech: ask	past	the king not said here					vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is	past	dove				true property	tree rules
4	say speech: assert	past · perfect	brothers = brother					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	get	could	brothers = brother	a boar			for Red	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent boar=Theme for he=Beneficiary
6	is	past	gold and silver time's bristles				of gold and silver time	tree rules

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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