The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 38, sentence 80

“Do not grieve about the coat of stone, dear father; but take this bit of chalk, and go to the palace and say you have come to measure the king.”

Who acts: you · What happens: not grieve, take, go, say, come, measure · To what, where: bit, palace, king · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (you), 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 grieve	punct
2	Do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	4 grieve	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 grieve	advmod
4	grieve	grieve	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	about	about	ADP	_	7 coat	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 coat	det
7	coat	coat	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 grieve	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 stone	case
9	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 coat	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 father	punct
11	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 father	amod
12	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 coat	conj
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 take	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 take	cc
15	take	take	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	4 grieve	parataxis
16	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	17 bit	det
17	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 take	obj
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 chalk	case
19	chalk	chalk	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 bit	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 go	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 go	cc
22	go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	15 take	conj
23	to	to	ADP	_	25 palace	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 palace	det
25	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 go	obl
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 say	cc
27	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 take	conj
28	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	30 come	nsubj
29	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 come	aux
30	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	27 say	ccomp
31	to	to	PART	_	32 measure	mark
32	measure	measure	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 come	xcomp
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 king	det
34	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 measure	obj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 grieve	punct
36	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 grieve	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not grieve in a quote	imperative · do-support	you not said here			about the coat of stone and dear father	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
2	take in a quote	infinitive		this bit of chalk			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bit=Theme
3	go in a quote	infinitive			the palace		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to palace=Initial_Location
4	say speech: assert in a quote	present					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	come in a quote	present · perfect	you				tree rules
6	measure in a quote	to-infinitive	you not said here	the king			vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme king=Value

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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