The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 16, sentence 70

'Then bid him go this very night,' cried the king; 'and if he brings me the lantern I will make him one of the chief men about my person.'

Who acts: you, Pinkel, I · What happens: bid, go, cry, bring, make · To what, where: Pinkel, king, lantern, me

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, Pinkel, I), 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	_	3 bid	punct
2	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 bid	advmod
3	bid	bid	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 bid	obj
5	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 bid	xcomp
6	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 night	det
7	very	very	ADV	_	8 night	advmod
8	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 go	obl:unmarked
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 cried	punct
10	'	'	PUNCT	_	11 cried	punct
11	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 bid	conj
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 king	det
13	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 cried	obj
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	3 bid	punct
15	'	'	PUNCT	_	3 bid	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 make	cc
17	if	if	SCONJ	_	19 brings	mark
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 brings	nsubj
19	brings	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 make	advcl
20	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 brings	obj
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 lantern	det
22	lantern	lantern	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 brings	obj
23	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 make	nsubj
24	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 make	aux
25	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 bid	conj
26	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 make	obj
27	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	25 make	xcomp
28	of	of	ADP	_	31 men	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 men	det
30	chief	chief	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 men	amod
31	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 one	nmod
32	about	about	ADP	_	34 person	case
33	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 person	nmod:poss
34	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 men	nmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 bid	punct
36	'	'	PUNCT	_	3 bid	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	roles by
1	bid	imperative	you not said here	Pinkel		then	tree rules
2	go	infinitive	you not said here			night	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	cry speech: express	past	you not said here	the king			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent king=Topic
4	bring a condition, not said to happen	present	Pinkel	the lantern	me		vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent i=Destination lantern=Theme
5	make	future	I	Pinkel			vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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