The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 100

And the king bade the servant go back to the mother and say that if she would give her boy to him, he should live in the palace and marry his prettiest daughter as soon as he was a man.

Who acts: king bade, bade, Boy · What happens: go back, say, give, live, marry, be · To what, where: boy, palace, prettiest daughter · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king bade, bade, Boy), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	7 go	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 bade	det
3	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bade	compound
4	bade	bade	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 go	nsubj
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 servant	det
6	servant	servant	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 go	nsubj
7	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	back	back	ADV	_	7 go	advmod
9	to	to	ADP	_	11 mother	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 mother	det
11	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 go	obl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 say	cc
13	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 go	conj
14	that	that	SCONJ	_	18 give	mark
15	if	if	SCONJ	_	18 give	mark
16	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 give	nsubj
17	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 give	aux
18	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 say	ccomp
19	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 boy	nmod:poss
20	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 give	obj
21	to	to	ADP	_	22 him	case
22	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 give	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 live	punct
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 live	nsubj
25	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 live	aux
26	live	live	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 say	ccomp
27	in	in	ADP	_	29 palace	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 palace	det
29	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 live	obl
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 marry	cc
31	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 live	conj
32	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 daughter	nmod:poss
33	prettiest	pretty	ADJ	Degree=Sup	34 daughter	amod
34	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 marry	obj
35	as	as	ADV	_	36 soon	advmod
36	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	31 marry	advmod
37	as	as	ADP	_	41 man	case
38	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 man	nsubj
39	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 man	cop
40	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	41 man	det
41	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 soon	obl
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 go	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	go back	infinitive	the king bade				to the mother result	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to mother=Result
2	say speech: assert	infinitive	the king bade not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	give a condition, not said to happen	would	bade	mother's boy	Boy			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent boy=Theme to he=Recipient
4	live	should	Boy			the palace		vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in palace=Location
5	marry	infinitive	Boy not said here	Boy's prettiest daughter			soon property	vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Patient
6	is	past	Boy				as a man	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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