The Yellow Fairy Book, The Swineherd, sentence 85
Tell him he shall have, as before, ten kisses; the rest he can take from my ladies-in-waiting.’
Who acts: you, Emperor, rest · What happens: tell, have, take, wait · To what, where: Emperor · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Swineherd. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, Emperor, rest), 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 | Tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Tell | iobj |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 have | nsubj |
| 4 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 have | aux |
| 5 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Tell | ccomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 before | punct |
| 7 | as | as | ADP | _ | 8 before | case |
| 8 | before | before | ADV | _ | 5 have | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 kisses | punct |
| 10 | ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 kisses | nummod |
| 11 | kisses | kiss | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 before | obl |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 take | punct |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 rest | det |
| 14 | rest | rest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 take | nsubj |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 take | nsubj |
| 16 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 take | aux |
| 17 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Tell | parataxis |
| 18 | from | from | ADP | _ | 20 ladies | case |
| 19 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 ladies | nmod:poss |
| 20 | ladies | lady | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 take | obl |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 24 waiting | punct |
| 22 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 24 waiting | mark |
| 23 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 in | punct |
| 24 | waiting | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 17 take | conj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Tell | punct |
| 26 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 1 Tell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | imperative | you not said here | Emperor | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | have | shall | Emperor | before property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | take | can | the rest | from my ladies | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent from lady=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | wait | gerund | the rest not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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