The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 37, sentence 35

'Then let your majesty bid the royal shoemaker make you a shoe of goat-skin very loose and comfortable, while I prepare a varnish to paint over it of which I alone have the secret!'

Who acts: majesty, royal shoemaker, I · What happens: let, bid, make, prepare, paint, have · To what, where: shoe, you, varnish, majesty, secret

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 37. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (majesty, royal shoemaker, 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 let	punct
2	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 let	advmod
3	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 bid	advcl
4	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 majesty	nmod:poss
5	majesty	majesty	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bid	nsubj
6	bid	bid	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 shoemaker	det
8	royal	royal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 shoemaker	amod
9	shoemaker	shoemaker	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 make	nsubj
10	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 bid	ccomp
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 make	obj
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 shoe	det
13	shoe	shoe	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 make	obj
14	of	of	ADP	_	17 skin	case
15	goat	goat	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 skin	compound
16	-	-	PUNCT	_	15 goat	punct
17	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 shoe	nmod
18	very	very	ADV	_	19 loose	advmod
19	loose	loose	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 skin	amod
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 comfortable	cc
21	comfortable	comfortable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 loose	conj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 prepare	punct
23	while	while	SCONJ	_	25 prepare	mark
24	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 prepare	nsubj
25	prepare	prepare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 make	conj
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 varnish	det
27	varnish	varnish	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 prepare	obj
28	to	to	PART	_	29 paint	mark
29	paint	paint	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 prepare	advcl
30	over	over	ADP	_	31 it	case
31	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 paint	obl
32	of	of	ADP	_	33 which	case
33	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	36 have	nmod
34	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	36 have	nsubj
35	alone	alone	ADV	_	36 have	advmod
36	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 paint	advcl
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 secret	det
38	secret	secret	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 have	obj
39	!	!	PUNCT	_	6 bid	punct
40	'	'	PUNCT	_	6 bid	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	let	infinitive	your majesty not said here				then		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent
2	bid	past	your majesty						tree rules
3	make	present	the royal shoemaker	a shoe of goat skin	you				vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset you=Beneficiary shoe=Product
4	prepare	present	I	a varnish					vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent varnish=Patient
5	paint	to-infinitive	I not said here			majesty			vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: agent=Agent over it=Destination
6	have	present	I	the secret				alone property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent secret=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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