The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 68

“My master bids me say,” said the messenger, bowing low, “that if you cannot tell him which of these three canes grows nearest the root, which in the middle, and which at the top, he will declare war against you.

Who acts: master, messenger, you · What happens: bid, say, bow, not tell, grow, declare · To what, where: messenger, war, top · 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 (master, messenger, you), 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	_	9 said	punct
2	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 master	nmod:poss
3	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bids	nsubj
4	bids	bid	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 said	ccomp
5	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 bids	obj
6	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 bids	xcomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 say	punct
8	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 bids	punct
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 messenger	det
11	messenger	messenger	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 said	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 bowing	punct
13	bowing	bow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 said	advcl
14	low	low	ADV	Degree=Pos	13 bowing	advmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 tell	punct
16	“	"	PUNCT	_	22 tell	punct
17	that	that	SCONJ	_	22 tell	mark
18	if	if	SCONJ	_	22 tell	mark
19	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	22 tell	nsubj
20	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 tell	aux
21	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	22 tell	advmod
22	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 said	conj
23	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 tell	iobj
24	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 grows	nsubj
25	of	of	ADP	_	28 canes	case
26	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	28 canes	det
27	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	28 canes	nummod
28	canes	cane	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 grows	obl
29	grows	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 tell	ccomp
30	nearest	nearest	ADP	_	32 root	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 root	det
32	root	root	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 grows	obl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 middle	punct
34	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	37 middle	nsubj
35	in	in	ADP	_	37 middle	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 middle	det
37	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 root	conj
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 declare	punct
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 declare	cc
40	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	47 declare	obj
41	at	at	ADP	_	43 top	case
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 top	det
43	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 declare	obl
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 top	punct
45	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 declare	nsubj
46	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	47 declare	aux
47	declare	declare	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 said	conj
48	war	war	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 declare	obj
49	against	against	ADP	_	50 you	case
50	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	47 declare	obl
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	bid in a quote	present	My master	the messenger = messenger				tree rules
2	say speech: assert in a quote	infinitive	My master not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	say speech: assert	past	the messenger					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	bow	gerund	the messenger not said here				low property	vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	not tell speech: assert a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	can	you		messenger			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
6	grow in a quote	present					of this three canes; nearest the root and the middle	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	declare speech: other in a quote	future	messenger	war		the top	against you	vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent which=Theme war=Attribute

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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