The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 46

As they stood there the king’s son told his three servants to go and fetch the maiden’s parents to be present at the wedding feast.

Who acts: stairs, son · What happens: stand, tell, go, fetch, be · To what, where: three servants, parents, wedding feast · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (stairs, son), 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	As	as	SCONJ	_	3 stood	mark
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 stood	nsubj
3	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 told	advcl
4	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 stood	advmod
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 king	det
6	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 son	nmod:poss
7	’s	's	PART	_	6 king	case
8	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 told	nsubj
9	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 servants	nmod:poss
11	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 servants	nummod
12	servants	servant	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 told	iobj
13	to	to	PART	_	14 go	mark
14	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 told	xcomp
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 fetch	cc
16	fetch	fetch	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	14 go	conj
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 maiden	det
18	maiden	maiden	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 parents	nmod:poss
19	’s	's	PART	_	18 maiden	case
20	parents	parent	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 fetch	obj
21	to	to	PART	_	23 present	mark
22	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	23 present	cop
23	present	present	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 fetch	advcl
24	at	at	ADP	_	27 feast	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 feast	det
26	wedding	wedding	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 feast	compound
27	feast	feast	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 present	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	stand	past	stairs = stair			there		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	tell speech: assert	past	the king's son		son's three servants			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent servant=Recipient clause=Topic
3	go not said to happen	to-infinitive	the king's son not said here					vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	fetch	infinitive	the king's son not said here	the maiden's parents				vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent parent=Theme
5	is	to-infinitive	the king's son not said here			the wedding feast	present property	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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