The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 83

“Be pleased to order your waiting-maids to accept the silks and velvets, and let your women trim their head-dresses with the jewels; these are no special treasures.

Who acts: you, women, these · What happens: be, order, accept, let, trim · To what, where: waiting maids, silks, head dresses, special treasures

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, women, these), 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	_	3 pleased	punct
2	Be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	3 pleased	cop
3	pleased	pleased	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 order	mark
5	order	order	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 pleased	xcomp
6	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 maids	nmod:poss
7	waiting	waiting	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 maids	compound
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 waiting	punct
9	maids	maid	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 order	obj
10	to	to	PART	_	11 accept	mark
11	accept	accept	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 order	advcl
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 silks	det
13	silks	silk	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 accept	obj
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 velvets	cc
15	velvets	velvet	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 silks	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 let	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 let	cc
18	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 pleased	parataxis
19	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 women	nmod:poss
20	women	woman	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 trim	nsubj
21	trim	trim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 let	xcomp
22	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 dresses	nmod:poss
23	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 dresses	compound
24	-	-	PUNCT	_	23 head	punct
25	dresses	dress	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 trim	obj
26	with	with	ADP	_	28 jewels	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 jewels	det
28	jewels	jewel	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 trim	obl
29	;	;	PUNCT	_	34 treasures	punct
30	these	this	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	34 treasures	nsubj
31	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	34 treasures	cop
32	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	34 treasures	det
33	special	special	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 treasures	amod
34	treasures	treasure	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 pleased	conj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 pleased	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	imperative	you not said here			pleased property	tree rules
2	order in a quote	to-infinitive	you not said here		your waiting maids		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent maid=Theme
3	accept in a quote	to-infinitive	you not said here	the silks and velvets			vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent silk=Theme
4	let in a quote	infinitive					tree rules
5	trim in a quote	present	your women	women's head dresses		with the jewels	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent dress=Destination with jewel=Theme
6	is a in a quote	present	these	no special treasures			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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