The Yellow Fairy Book, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 1, sentence 74

Two regiments soon overtook them, and called to them, ‘You are prisoners! lay down the sack of gold or you shall be cut down.’

Who acts: Two regiments, You · What happens: overtake, call, be, lay down, cut down · To what, where: treasures, regiments, prisoners, sack, you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Two regiments, You), 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	Two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 regiments	nummod
2	regiments	regiment	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 overtook	nsubj
3	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 overtook	advmod
4	overtook	overtake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 overtook	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 called	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 called	cc
8	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 overtook	parataxis
9	to	to	ADP	_	10 them	case
10	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 called	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 prisoners	punct
12	‘	'	PUNCT	_	15 prisoners	punct
13	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	15 prisoners	nsubj
14	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 prisoners	cop
15	prisoners	prisoner	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 called	conj
16	!	!	PUNCT	_	17 lay	punct
17	lay	lay	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	4 overtook	parataxis
18	down	down	ADP	_	17 lay	compound:prt
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 sack	det
20	sack	sack	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 lay	obj
21	of	of	ADP	_	22 gold	case
22	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 sack	nmod
23	or	or	CCONJ	_	27 cut	cc
24	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	27 cut	nsubj:pass
25	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 cut	aux
26	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	27 cut	aux:pass
27	cut	cut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 lay	conj
28	down	down	ADP	_	27 cut	compound:prt
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 lay	punct
30	’	'	PUNCT	_	17 lay	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	overtake	past	Two regiments	treasures = treasure		soon property	tree rules
2	call	participle			regiments = regiment		vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to they=Recipient
3	is a	present	You	prisoners			tree rules
4	lay down	infinitive		the sack of gold			vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sack=Result
5	cut down	shall · passive		you			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product

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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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