The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 53

The master answered: “Do as I bid you”; and made ready to return home with his wife, and they mounted their horses, her steed being a mare.

Who acts: master, servants, steed · What happens: answer, do, bid, make, return, mount · To what, where: you, horses, mare · 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 (master, servants, steed), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 master	det
2	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 answered	nsubj
3	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	6 Do	punct
5	“	"	PUNCT	_	6 Do	punct
6	Do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 answered	ccomp
7	as	as	SCONJ	_	9 bid	mark
8	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 bid	nsubj
9	bid	bid	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 Do	advcl
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 bid	obj
11	”	"	PUNCT	_	9 bid	punct
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 made	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 made	cc
14	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 answered	parataxis
15	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 made	xcomp
16	to	to	PART	_	17 return	mark
17	return	return	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 ready	xcomp
18	home	home	ADV	_	17 return	advmod
19	with	with	ADP	_	21 wife	case
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 wife	nmod:poss
21	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 return	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 mounted	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 mounted	cc
24	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 mounted	nsubj
25	mounted	mount	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 made	conj
26	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 horses	nmod:poss
27	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 mounted	obj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 mare	punct
29	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 steed	nmod:poss
30	steed	steed	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 mare	nsubj
31	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	33 mare	cop
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 mare	det
33	mare	mare	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 mounted	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	answer speech: assert	past	the master			tree rules
2	do in a quote	infinitive				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	bid in a quote	past	the master = master	you		tree rules
4	make	past			ready property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
5	return	to-infinitive			with master's wife; home property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	mount	past	servants = servant	servants's horses		vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Patient
7	is a	gerund	wife's steed	a mare		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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