The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 103

After this conversation another letter was written to the Court of Hungary, saying that if the youth, now in the palace, was not sent to Turkey within three days, a large army would cross the border.

Who acts: large army · What happens: write, say, not send, cross · To what, where: letter, Court, Turkey, border · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (large army), 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	After	after	ADP	_	3 conversation	case
2	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 conversation	det
3	conversation	conversation	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 written	obl
4	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	5 letter	det
5	letter	letter	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 written	nsubj:pass
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 written	aux:pass
7	written	write	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 Court	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Court	det
10	Court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 written	obl
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 Hungary	case
12	Hungary	Hungary	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 Court	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 saying	punct
14	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 written	advcl
15	that	that	SCONJ	_	27 sent	mark
16	if	if	SCONJ	_	18 youth	mark
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 youth	det
18	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 sent	advcl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 palace	punct
20	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	23 palace	advmod
21	in	in	ADP	_	23 palace	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 palace	det
23	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 youth	conj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 youth	punct
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 sent	aux:pass
26	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	27 sent	advmod
27	sent	send	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 saying	ccomp
28	to	to	ADP	_	29 Turkey	case
29	Turkey	Turkey	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 sent	obl
30	within	within	ADP	_	32 days	case
31	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	32 days	nummod
32	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 sent	obl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 cross	punct
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 army	det
35	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 army	amod
36	army	army	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 cross	nsubj
37	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	38 cross	aux
38	cross	cross	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 sent	advcl
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 border	det
40	border	border	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 cross	obj
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 written	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	roles by
1	write	past · passive		another letter	the Court of Hungary	after this conversation	vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Topic to court=Recipient
2	say speech: assert	gerund					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	not send	past · passive			Turkey	day	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: to turkey=Destination
4	cross	would	a large army	the border			vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent border=Patient

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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