The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 105

He bade his son act as Regent in his absence, but ordered him on no account to marry till his return.

Who acts: king · What happens: bade, order, marry, act, absent, return · To what, where: son act, absence, king, account

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 bade	nsubj
2	bade	bade	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 act	nmod:poss
4	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 act	compound
5	act	act	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 bade	obj
6	as	as	ADP	_	7 Regent	case
7	Regent	Regent	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 bade	obl
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 absence	case
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 absence	nmod:poss
10	absence	absence	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 bade	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 ordered	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 ordered	cc
13	ordered	order	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 bade	parataxis
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 ordered	obj
15	on	on	ADP	_	17 account	case
16	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	17 account	det
17	account	account	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 ordered	obl
18	to	to	PART	_	19 marry	mark
19	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 ordered	advcl
20	till	till	ADP	_	22 return	case
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 return	nmod:poss
22	return	return	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 marry	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 bade	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bade	past	king	king's son act		king's absence		as Regent	tree rules
2	order	past			king	no account			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
3	marry	to-infinitive					till king's return		vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
4	act		king						nom act «communication intransitive»: poss=agent
5	absent		king						nom absence «state transitive»: poss=agent
6	return		king						nom return «communication intransitive»: 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 Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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