Fifty Famous Stories Retold, II. the Three Answers., sentence 49

And when you get home, you may tell the old abbot that you have brought him a free pardon from King John."

Who acts: you · What happens: get, tell, bring · To what, where: old abbot · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, II. the Three Answers.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	9 tell	cc
2	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 get	advmod
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 get	nsubj
4	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 tell	advcl
5	home	home	ADV	_	4 get	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 get	punct
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 tell	nsubj
8	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 tell	aux
9	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 abbot	det
11	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 abbot	amod
12	abbot	abbot	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 tell	obj
13	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 brought	nsubj:pass
14	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 brought	nsubj
15	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 brought	aux
16	brought	bring	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 abbot	acl:relcl
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 brought	obj
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 pardon	det
19	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 pardon	amod
20	pardon	pardon	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 brought	obj
21	from	from	ADP	_	23 John	case
22	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 John	nmod:desc
23	John	John	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 pardon	nmod
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 tell	punct
25	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	get	present	you			home property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2	tell speech: assert	may	you		the old abbot		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent abbot=Recipient
3	bring	present · perfect · passive		the old abbot			tree rules

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: «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Project Gutenberg book 18442 (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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