The Yellow Fairy Book, The Flying Ship(24), sentence 126

‘Tell the rascal to raise me an army, now at this instant!’ he exclaimed to one of his courtiers.

Who acts: rascal, Simpleton · What happens: tell, raise, exclaim · To what, where: rascal, me, instant, one · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Flying Ship(24). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (rascal, Simpleton), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	2 Tell	punct
2	Tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 exclaimed	ccomp
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 rascal	det
4	rascal	rascal	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Tell	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 raise	mark
6	raise	raise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 Tell	xcomp
7	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 raise	obj
8	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 army	det
9	army	army	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 raise	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 instant	punct
11	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	14 instant	advmod
12	at	at	ADP	_	14 instant	case
13	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	14 instant	det
14	instant	instant	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 raise	obl
15	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Tell	punct
16	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Tell	punct
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 exclaimed	nsubj
18	exclaimed	exclaim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
19	to	to	ADP	_	20 one	case
20	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 exclaimed	obl
21	of	of	ADP	_	23 courtiers	case
22	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 courtiers	nmod:poss
23	courtiers	courtier	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 one	nmod
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 exclaimed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	infinitive		the rascal			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent rascal=Recipient clause=Topic
2	raise not said to happen	to-infinitive	the rascal not said here	me		this instant	vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Agent i=Theme army=Destination
3	exclaim speech: express	past	Simpleton		one of Simpleton's courtiers		vn say-37.7-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to one=Recipient clause=Topic

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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