Fifty Famous Stories Retold, King Canute on the Seashore., sentence 10

He thought that now he would teach them a lesson, and so he bade them set his chair on the beach close by the edge of the water.

Who acts: king, bade · What happens: think, teach, bade, set · To what, where: lesson, cers, chair, beach · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, King Canute on the Seashore.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, bade), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 thought	nsubj
2	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	7 teach	mark
4	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 teach	advmod
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 teach	nsubj
6	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 teach	aux
7	teach	teach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 thought	ccomp
8	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 teach	iobj
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 lesson	det
10	lesson	lesson	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 teach	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 set	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 set	cc
13	so	so	ADV	_	15 bade	advmod
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 bade	nsubj
15	bade	bade	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 set	nsubj
16	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 bade	obj
17	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 thought	parataxis
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 chair	nmod:poss
19	chair	chair	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 set	obj
20	on	on	ADP	_	22 beach	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 beach	det
22	beach	beach	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 set	obl
23	close	close	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 set	conj
24	by	by	ADP	_	26 edge	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 edge	det
26	edge	edge	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 close	obl
27	of	of	ADP	_	29 water	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 water	det
29	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 edge	nmod
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	king					vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	teach speech: other	would	king	a lesson	cers = cer		now	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient lesson=Topic
3	bade		king	cers = cer				tree rules
4	set	past	bade	king's chair		the beach		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent chair=Theme on beach=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: «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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