The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 25, sentence 97

“Tell the count that the wedding can take place whenever he pleases,” answered the king, and, filled with pride, the fox trotted back to deliver his message.

Who acts: you, wedding, king, fox · What happens: tell, take, please, answer, fill, trot back · To what, where: count, place, message · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, wedding, king, fox), 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	_	2 Tell	punct
2	Tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 count	det
4	count	count	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Tell	obj
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 take	mark
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 wedding	det
7	wedding	wedding	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 take	nsubj
8	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 take	aux
9	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 Tell	ccomp
10	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 take	obj
11	whenever	whenever	ADV	PronType=Rel	13 pleases	advmod
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 pleases	nsubj
13	pleases	please	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 take	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Tell	punct
15	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Tell	punct
16	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 Tell	ccomp
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 king	det
18	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 answered	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 filled	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 filled	cc
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 filled	punct
22	filled	fill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 Tell	ccomp
23	with	with	ADP	_	24 pride	case
24	pride	pride	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 filled	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 trotted	punct
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 fox	det
27	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 trotted	nsubj
28	trotted	trot	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 Tell	conj
29	back	back	ADV	_	28 trotted	advmod
30	to	to	PART	_	31 deliver	mark
31	deliver	deliver	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 trotted	advcl
32	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 message	nmod:poss
33	message	message	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 deliver	obj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert in a quote	imperative	you not said here	the count		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent count=Recipient clause=Topic
2	take in a quote	can	the wedding	place		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Theme
3	please in a quote	present	wedding		whenever property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
4	answer speech: assert	past	the king			vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	fill	participle			with pride	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with pride=Instrument
6	trot back	past	the fox			vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	deliver	to-infinitive	the fox not said here	fox's message		vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent message=Patient

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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