More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 6, sentence 94

But when he heard the King's command, he dried his eyes and bade them bring shears to cut him loose, for his hair had bound him a fast prisoner and he could not move.

Who acts: One, hair, King · What happens: hear, dry, bade, bring, cut, bind · To what, where: command, eyes, shears, One · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (One, hair, King), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	11 dried	cc
2	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 heard	advmod
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 heard	nsubj
4	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 dried	advcl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 King	det
6	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 command	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 King	case
8	command	command	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 heard	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 heard	punct
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 dried	nsubj
11	dried	dry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 eyes	nmod:poss
13	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 dried	obj
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 bade	cc
15	bade	bade	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 dried	conj
16	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 bade	obj
17	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 bade	xcomp
18	shears	shear	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 bring	obj
19	to	to	PART	_	20 cut	mark
20	cut	cut	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 bring	advcl
21	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 cut	obj
22	loose	loose	ADV	_	20 cut	advmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 bound	punct
24	for	for	SCONJ	_	28 bound	mark
25	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 hair	nmod:poss
26	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 bound	nsubj
27	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 bound	aux
28	bound	bind	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	15 bade	parataxis
29	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 bound	obj
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 prisoner	det
31	fast	fast	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 prisoner	amod
32	prisoner	prisoner	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 bound	xcomp
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 move	cc
34	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 move	nsubj
35	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	37 move	aux
36	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	37 move	advmod
37	move	move	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 bound	conj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 dried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	hear	past	One	the King's command		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer command=Stimulus
2	dry	past	One	One's eyes		vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient eye=Result
3	bade	past	One not said here	eyes = eye		tree rules
4	bring	infinitive	One not said here	shears		vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent shear=Theme
5	cut	to-infinitive	One not said here	One	loose property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset he=Product
6	bind	past · perfect	One's hair	One		vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient
7	not move	could	One			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
8	command		the King			nom command «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: «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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