The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 4, sentence 68

So he called his three children to him and said, ‘My dear sons, I am growing old, and am weary of reigning, but I can’t make up my mind to which of you three I should yield my crown, for I love you all equally.

Who acts: three, I, you, my · What happens: call, say, grow, be, reign, not make up · To what, where: three children, child, mind, crown, you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (three, I, you, my), 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	So	so	ADV	_	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	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 children	nmod:poss
5	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 children	nummod
6	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 called	obj
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 him	case
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 called	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 said	cc
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 called	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 sons	punct
12	‘	'	PUNCT	_	15 sons	punct
13	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 sons	nmod:poss
14	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 sons	amod
15	sons	son	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 said	ccomp
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 growing	punct
17	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 growing	nsubj
18	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 growing	aux
19	growing	grow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 sons	conj
20	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 growing	xcomp
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 weary	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 weary	cc
23	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 weary	cop
24	weary	weary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 called	parataxis
25	of	of	SCONJ	_	26 reigning	mark
26	reigning	reign	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	24 weary	advcl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 make	punct
28	but	but	CCONJ	_	32 make	cc
29	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	32 make	nsubj
30	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 make	aux
31	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	32 make	advmod
32	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 called	conj
33	up	up	ADP	_	32 make	compound:prt
34	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 mind	nmod:poss
35	mind	mind	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 make	obj
36	to	to	ADP	_	37 which	case
37	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	43 yield	obl
38	of	of	ADP	_	39 you	case
39	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	43 yield	nsubj
40	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	39 you	obj
41	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	43 yield	nsubj
42	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	43 yield	aux
43	yield	yield	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 make	parataxis
44	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	45 crown	nmod:poss
45	crown	crown	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 yield	obj
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 love	punct
47	for	for	SCONJ	_	49 love	mark
48	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	49 love	nsubj
49	love	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	43 yield	conj
50	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	49 love	obj
51	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	50 you	nmod:unmarked
52	equally	equally	ADV	_	49 love	advmod
53	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 called	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	call speech: assert	past	three	three's three children	child		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent child=Topic to he=Recipient
2	say speech: assert	past	three not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	grow	present · progressive	I			old property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	is	present				weary property	tree rules
5	reign	gerund					tree rules
6	not make up	can	I	my mind			vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme mind=Pivot
7	yield	should	you	my crown			vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent crown=Theme to which=Goal
8	love	present	I	you		equally property	vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus
9	mind		my				nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=agent
10	crown		my				nom crown «communication transitive»: poss=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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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