The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 81

“Now that you are really my son, tell me by what arts you were able to fulfil the tasks I set you?”

Who acts: you, arts, king · What happens: be, tell, fulfil, set · To what, where: son, king, tasks, you · 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 (you, arts, 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	10 tell	punct
2	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	10 tell	advmod
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 son	mark
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 son	nsubj
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 son	cop
6	really	really	ADV	_	8 son	advmod
7	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 son	nmod:poss
8	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 tell	advcl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 son	punct
10	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 tell	iobj
12	by	by	ADP	_	13 what	case
13	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 tell	obl
14	arts	art	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 able	nsubj
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 able	nsubj
16	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 able	cop
17	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 what	acl:relcl
18	to	to	PART	_	19 fulfil	mark
19	fulfil	fulfil	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 able	xcomp
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 tasks	det
21	tasks	task	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 fulfil	obj
22	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 set	nsubj
23	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 tasks	acl:relcl
24	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	23 set	obj
25	?	?	PUNCT	_	10 tell	punct
26	”	"	PUNCT	_	10 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	you	my son				tree rules
2	tell speech: assert in a quote	imperative	you not said here		king	now		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient
3	is in a quote	past	arts				able property	tree rules
4	fulfil in a quote	to-infinitive	arts not said here	the tasks				tree rules
5	set in a quote	past	king	you				vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient you=Result

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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