The Violet Fairy Book, The Three Princes and Their Beasts (lithuanian Fairy Tale), sentence 80

Then he called the fox, and told him to mount guard over the dead ox, and if a bird came past and tried to peck at the flesh he was to catch it and bring it to the lion.

Who acts: straightway, bird · What happens: call, tell, mount, come, try, peck · To what, where: fox, straightway, guard, dead ox, bird, lion · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Princes and Their Beasts (lithuanian Fairy Tale). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (straightway, bird), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 called	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 called	nsubj
3	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 fox	det
5	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 called	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 told	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 told	cc
8	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 called	conj
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 told	iobj
10	to	to	PART	_	11 mount	mark
11	mount	mount	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 told	xcomp
12	guard	guard	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 mount	obj
13	over	over	ADP	_	16 ox	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 ox	det
15	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 ox	amod
16	ox	ox	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 mount	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 came	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 came	cc
19	if	if	SCONJ	_	22 came	mark
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 bird	det
21	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 came	nsubj
22	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 called	parataxis
23	past	past	ADV	_	22 came	advmod
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 tried	cc
25	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 came	conj
26	to	to	PART	_	27 peck	mark
27	peck	peck	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 tried	xcomp
28	at	at	ADP	_	30 flesh	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 flesh	det
30	flesh	flesh	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 peck	obl
31	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 catch	nsubj
32	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 catch	cop
33	to	to	PART	_	34 catch	mark
34	catch	catch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 peck	conj
35	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 catch	obj
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 bring	cc
37	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 catch	conj
38	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 bring	obj
39	to	to	ADP	_	41 lion	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 lion	det
41	lion	lion	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 bring	obl
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 called	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	call speech: assert	past	straightway		the fox		then		vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent fox=Recipient
2	tell speech: assert	past	straightway not said here		straightway				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
3	mount not said to happen	to-infinitive	straightway not said here	guard		the dead ox			vn put-9.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent guard=Theme over ox=Destination
4	come a condition, not said to happen	past	a bird					past property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	try	past	a bird not said here						vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
6	peck not said to happen	to-infinitive	a bird not said here					at the flesh	vn chew-39.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent at flesh=Patient
7	is	past	straightway					catch property	tree rules
8	bring	infinitive	straightway not said here	bird	the lion				vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme to lion=Destination

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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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