The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 96
“Bring him to me at once,” commanded the monarch, “and tell him that it is the king who sends for him, and that he has never cried in all his life and cannot bear anyone else to do so.”
Who acts: monarch, king, man · What happens: bring, command, tell, be, send, not cry · To what, where: man, child, monarch, king, life, anyone · 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 (monarch, king, man), 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 | _ | 2 Bring | punct |
| 2 | Bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 commanded | ccomp |
| 3 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 Bring | obj |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 me | case |
| 5 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 Bring | obl |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 once | case |
| 7 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 2 Bring | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Bring | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Bring | punct |
| 10 | commanded | command | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 monarch | det |
| 12 | monarch | monarch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 commanded | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 tell | punct |
| 14 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 tell | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 tell | cc |
| 16 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 commanded | conj |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 tell | iobj |
| 18 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 22 king | mark |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 king | nsubj |
| 20 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 king | cop |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 king | det |
| 22 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 tell | ccomp |
| 23 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 sends | nsubj |
| 24 | sends | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 king | acl:relcl |
| 25 | for | for | ADP | _ | 26 him | case |
| 26 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 sends | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 cried | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 cried | cc |
| 29 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 33 cried | mark |
| 30 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 cried | nsubj |
| 31 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 33 cried | aux |
| 32 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 33 cried | advmod |
| 33 | cried | cry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 commanded | parataxis |
| 34 | in | in | ADP | _ | 37 life | case |
| 35 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 37 life | det:predet |
| 36 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 life | nmod:poss |
| 37 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 cried | obl |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 bear | cc |
| 39 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 41 bear | aux |
| 40 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 41 bear | advmod |
| 41 | bear | bear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 33 cried | conj |
| 42 | anyone | anyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 41 bear | obj |
| 43 | else | else | ADV | _ | 42 anyone | advmod |
| 44 | to | to | PART | _ | 45 do | mark |
| 45 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 41 bear | xcomp |
| 46 | so | so | ADV | _ | 45 do | advmod |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 commanded | punct |
| 48 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 commanded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring in a quote | infinitive | man | child | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to i=Destination | ||||
| 2 | command | past | the monarch | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent monarch=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert in a quote | infinitive | man | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | |||||
| 4 | is a in a quote | present | monarch | the king | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | send in a quote | present | the king | for man | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | not cry speech: express in a quote | present · perfect | man | man's life | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in life=Location | ||||
| 7 | not bear in a quote | can | man not said here | anyone | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | do in a quote | to-infinitive | man not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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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