The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 47

So he ordered the merchants to be brought before him, and when they came he said: “You have travelled much and visited many wonders.

Who acts: king, merchants, You · What happens: order, bring, come, say, travell, visit · To what, where: merchants, many wonders · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, merchants, 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 ordered	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 ordered	nsubj
3	ordered	order	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 merchants	det
5	merchants	merchant	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 ordered	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	8 brought	mark
7	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 brought	aux:pass
8	brought	bring	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 ordered	ccomp
9	before	before	ADP	_	10 him	case
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 brought	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 said	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 said	cc
13	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	15 came	advmod
14	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 came	nsubj
15	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 said	advcl
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 said	nsubj
17	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 ordered	parataxis
18	:	:	PUNCT	_	22 travelled	punct
19	“	"	PUNCT	_	22 travelled	punct
20	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	22 travelled	nsubj
21	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 travelled	aux
22	travelled	travell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	17 said	conj
23	much	much	ADV	_	22 travelled	advmod
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 visited	cc
25	visited	visit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 travelled	conj
26	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 wonders	amod
27	wonders	wonder	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 visited	obj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 ordered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	order	past	king	the merchants		vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent merchant=Recipient clause=Topic
2	bring not said to happen	to-infinitive · passive	king not said here		before king	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: before he=Destination
3	come	past	merchants = merchant			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	say speech: assert	past	king			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
5	travell in a quote	present · perfect	You			tree rules
6	visit in a quote	past	You not said here	many wonders		vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wonder=Co-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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