The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 38, sentence 76

So he sent a message by one of his pages that the merchant was to come to see him the next day, and bring with him a coat made of stone, or else he would be punished.

Who acts: king, merchant · What happens: send, come, see, bring, make, punish · To what, where: message, king, coat

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 38. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, merchant), 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 sent	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 sent	nsubj
3	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 message	det
5	message	message	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sent	obj
6	by	by	ADP	_	7 one	case
7	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 sent	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 pages	case
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 pages	nmod:poss
10	pages	page	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 one	nmod
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	16 come	mark
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 merchant	det
13	merchant	merchant	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 come	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 come	aux
15	to	to	PART	_	16 come	mark
16	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 pages	acl
17	to	to	PART	_	18 see	mark
18	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 come	xcomp
19	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 see	obj
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 day	det
21	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 day	amod
22	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 see	obl:unmarked
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 bring	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 bring	cc
25	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 sent	advcl
26	with	with	ADP	_	27 him	case
27	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 bring	obl
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 coat	det
29	coat	coat	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 bring	obj
30	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	29 coat	acl
31	of	of	ADP	_	32 stone	case
32	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 made	obl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 punished	punct
34	or	or	CCONJ	_	39 punished	cc
35	else	else	ADV	_	39 punished	advmod
36	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 punished	nsubj:pass
37	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	39 punished	aux
38	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	39 punished	aux:pass
39	punished	punish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 bring	conj
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 sent	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	send	past	king	a message		by one of king's pages	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent message=Theme
2	come	past	the merchant				tree rules
3	see	to-infinitive	the merchant not said here	king	day		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus
4	bring	infinitive	king not said here	a coat		with king	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent coat=Theme
5	make	participle		a coat not said here		of stone	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
6	punish	would · passive		king		else property	vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
7	page		king				nom page «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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