The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 48

When they got there, the little man said to him, ‘Go in front of the altar now, and take in your hand the book that is lying there.

Who acts: heels, little man, book · What happens: get, say, go, take in, lie · To what, where: Christian, front, hand · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (heels, little man, book), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 got	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 got	nsubj
3	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 said	advcl
4	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 got	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 got	punct
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 man	det
7	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 man	amod
8	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 said	nsubj
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	to	to	ADP	_	11 him	case
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 said	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 Go	punct
13	‘	'	PUNCT	_	14 Go	punct
14	Go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	9 said	ccomp
15	in	in	ADP	_	16 front	case
16	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 Go	obl
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 altar	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 altar	det
19	altar	altar	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 front	nmod
20	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	14 Go	advmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 take	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 take	cc
23	take	take	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	14 Go	parataxis
24	in	in	ADP	_	23 take	compound:prt
25	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 hand	nmod:poss
26	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 take	obj
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 book	det
28	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 take	obj
29	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	31 lying	nsubj
30	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 lying	aux
31	lying	lie	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	28 book	acl:relcl
32	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	31 lying	advmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	roles by
1	get	past	heels = heel			there		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2	say speech: assert	past	the little man		Christian			vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to he=Experiencer clause=Topic
3	go	infinitive				front of the altar	now	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in front=Location
4	take in	infinitive		your hand				vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument hand=Theme book=Destination
5	lie	present · progressive	the book			there		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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