The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 23
Now, if your Majesty would give orders that a sack of wheat should be mixed with one of barley, and would send for the youth, and command him to separate the grains one from another, in two hours’ time, you would soon see what his talk was worth.”
Who acts: Majesty, you, talk, king · What happens: give, mix, send, command, separate, see · To what, where: orders, sack, king, grains · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Majesty, you, talk, 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 give | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Now | punct |
| 3 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 7 give | mark |
| 4 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 Majesty | nmod:poss |
| 5 | Majesty | majesty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 give | nsubj |
| 6 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 give | aux |
| 7 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | orders | order | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 give | obj |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 mixed | mark |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 sack | det |
| 11 | sack | sack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 mixed | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 wheat | case |
| 13 | wheat | wheat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 sack | nmod |
| 14 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 mixed | aux |
| 15 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 16 mixed | aux:pass |
| 16 | mixed | mix | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 give | advcl |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 one | case |
| 18 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 mixed | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 barley | case |
| 20 | barley | barley | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 one | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 send | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 send | cc |
| 23 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 send | aux |
| 24 | send | send | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 give | conj |
| 25 | for | for | ADP | _ | 27 youth | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 youth | det |
| 27 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 send | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 command | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 command | cc |
| 30 | command | command | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 7 give | parataxis |
| 31 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 command | obj |
| 32 | to | to | PART | _ | 33 separate | mark |
| 33 | separate | separate | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 command | advcl |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 grains | det |
| 35 | grains | grain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 separate | obj |
| 36 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 35 grains | flat |
| 37 | from | from | ADP | _ | 38 another | case |
| 38 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 36 one | nmod |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 time | punct |
| 40 | in | in | ADP | _ | 44 time | case |
| 41 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 42 hours | nummod |
| 42 | hours | hour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 44 time | nmod:poss |
| 43 | ’ | 's | PART | _ | 42 hours | case |
| 44 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 separate | obl |
| 45 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 49 see | punct |
| 46 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 49 see | nsubj |
| 47 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 49 see | aux |
| 48 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 49 see | advmod |
| 49 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 command | conj |
| 50 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 54 worth | obj |
| 51 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 52 talk | nmod:poss |
| 52 | talk | talk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 54 worth | nsubj |
| 53 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 54 worth | cop |
| 54 | worth | worth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 49 see | ccomp |
| 55 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 give | punct |
| 56 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | would | your Majesty | orders | now | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent order=Theme | |||
| 2 | mix | should · passive | a sack of wheat | with one of barley | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient with one=Co-Patient | ||||
| 3 | send | would | your Majesty not said here | for the youth | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | command | infinitive | king | vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent he=Theme | |||||
| 5 | separate | to-infinitive | the grains | time | vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grain=Patient | ||||
| 6 | see | would | you | soon property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 7 | is | past | king's talk | worth property | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | talk | king | nom talk «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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