The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 79

As before, his words came true, though Tiidu could not at once do his bidding, as he had first to fulfil his appointed time of service.

Who acts: words, Tiidu, man · What happens: come, not do, have, fulfil, appoint, word · To what, where: bidding

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (words, Tiidu, man), 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	As	as	ADP	_	2 before	case
2	before	before	ADV	_	6 came	obl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 before	punct
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 words	nmod:poss
5	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 came	nsubj
6	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 came	xcomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 do	punct
9	though	though	SCONJ	_	15 do	mark
10	Tiidu	Tiidu	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 do	nsubj
11	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 do	aux
12	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 do	advmod
13	at	at	ADP	_	14 once	case
14	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	15 do	obl
15	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 came	conj
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 bidding	nmod:poss
17	bidding	bidding	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 do	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 had	punct
19	as	as	SCONJ	_	21 had	mark
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 had	nsubj
21	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 came	conj
22	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	21 had	advmod
23	to	to	PART	_	24 fulfil	mark
24	fulfil	fulfil	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 had	xcomp
25	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 time	nmod:poss
26	appointed	appoint	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 time	amod
27	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 fulfil	obj
28	of	of	ADP	_	29 service	case
29	service	service	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 time	nmod
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	man's words			true property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	not do	could	Tiidu	man's bidding			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bidding=Eventuality
3	have	past	Tiidu			first property	tree rules
4	fulfil	to-infinitive	Tiidu not said here		time		tree rules
5	appoint	participle					vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
6	word		man				nom word «communication transitive»: poss=agent
7	bid		man				nom bidding «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 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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