The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 20, sentence 83

'Tell your false king that to-morrow I will destroy his castle as easily as I have broken this table.'

Who acts: you, I · What happens: tell, destroy, break · To what, where: false king, table · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, 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	_	2 Tell	punct
2	Tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 king	nmod:poss
4	false	false	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 king	amod
5	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Tell	obj
6	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 destroy	obj
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 morrow	case
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 to	punct
9	morrow	morrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 destroy	obl
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 destroy	nsubj
11	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 destroy	aux
12	destroy	destroy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 king	acl:relcl
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 castle	nmod:poss
14	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 destroy	obj
15	as	as	ADV	_	16 easily	advmod
16	easily	easily	ADV	_	12 destroy	advmod
17	as	as	SCONJ	_	20 broken	mark
18	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 broken	nsubj
19	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 broken	aux
20	broken	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 Tell	advcl
21	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	22 table	det
22	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 broken	obj
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Tell	punct
24	'	'	PUNCT	_	2 Tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	imperative	you not said here		your false king		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent king=Recipient
2	destroy	future	I	your false king		to morrow; easily property	tree rules
3	break	present · perfect	I	this table			vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer table=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 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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