The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 72

The Sultan has sent me three canes, and says that if I cannot tell him which of them grows near the root, which in the middle, and which at the top, he will make war upon me.

Who acts: I, king · What happens: send, say, not tell, grow, make · To what, where: Sultan, king, root, 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 (I, king), 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 Sultan	det
2	Sultan	Sultan	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 sent	nsubj:pass
3	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 sent	aux
4	sent	send	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 sent	obj
6	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 canes	nummod
7	canes	cane	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 sent	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 says	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 says	cc
10	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 sent	parataxis
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	16 tell	mark
12	if	if	SCONJ	_	16 tell	mark
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 tell	nsubj
14	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 tell	aux
15	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 tell	advmod
16	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 says	ccomp
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 tell	iobj
18	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 grows	obj
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 them	case
20	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 grows	obl
21	grows	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 tell	advcl
22	near	near	ADP	_	24 root	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 root	det
24	root	root	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 grows	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 middle	punct
26	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 middle	nsubj
27	in	in	ADP	_	29 middle	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 middle	det
29	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 root	conj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 make	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 make	cc
32	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	39 make	obj
33	at	at	ADP	_	35 top	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 top	det
35	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 make	obl
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 top	punct
37	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 make	nsubj
38	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	39 make	aux
39	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 says	ccomp
40	war	war	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 make	obj
41	upon	upon	ADP	_	42 me	case
42	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	39 make	obl
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 sent	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	send	present · perfect · passive		the Sultan				tree rules
2	say speech: assert	present						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	not tell speech: assert a condition, not said to happen	can	I		king			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
4	grow	present	I not said here			the root and the middle	of canes = cane	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location which=Theme
5	make	future	king	war		the top	upon me	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset which=Beneficiary war=Product

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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