The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 130

“He only says that to please you,” cried Subida in a rage; and calling to her chamberlain, she ordered him to go at once to the dwelling of Abu Nowas and see which of the two was dead.

Who acts: porter, wife · What happens: say, please, cry, call, order, go · To what, where: you, rage, chamberlain, porter, dwelling · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (porter, wife), 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	_	4 says	punct
2	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 says	nsubj
3	only	only	ADV	_	4 says	advmod
4	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	7 please	mark
6	to	to	PART	_	7 please	mark
7	please	please	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 cried	advcl
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 please	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 please	punct
10	”	"	PUNCT	_	7 please	punct
11	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 says	ccomp
12	Subida	Subida	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 cried	flat
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 rage	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 rage	det
15	rage	rage	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 cried	obl
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 calling	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 calling	cc
18	calling	call	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 cried	advcl
19	to	to	ADP	_	21 chamberlain	case
20	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 chamberlain	nmod:poss
21	chamberlain	chamberlain	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 calling	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 ordered	punct
23	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 ordered	nsubj
24	ordered	order	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 calling	conj
25	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 ordered	obj
26	to	to	PART	_	27 go	mark
27	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 ordered	xcomp
28	at	at	ADP	_	29 once	case
29	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	27 go	obl
30	to	to	ADP	_	32 dwelling	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 dwelling	det
32	dwelling	dwelling	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 go	obl
33	of	of	ADP	_	34 Abu	case
34	Abu	Abu	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 dwelling	nmod
35	Nowas	Nowas	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 Abu	flat
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 see	cc
37	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 go	conj
38	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	43 dead	nsubj
39	of	of	ADP	_	41 two	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 two	det
41	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	43 dead	obl
42	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	43 dead	cop
43	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 see	ccomp
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 says	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert in a quote	present	porter					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	please in a quote	to-infinitive		you				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus you=Experiencer
3	cry speech: express	past				a rage		vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in rage=Location
4	call	gerund			wife's chamberlain			vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to chamberlain=Recipient
5	order	past	wife		porter			vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
6	go not said to happen	to-infinitive	wife not said here			the dwelling of Abu		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to dwelling=Initial_Location
7	see	infinitive	wife not said here					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
8	is	past					of the two; dead property	tree rules

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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