The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 108

So they both bowed low and replied that it was the king’s place to command and theirs to obey.

Who acts: people, heart · What happens: bow, reply, be, command, obey · To what, where: place, people · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (people, heart), 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	So	so	ADV	_	4 bowed	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 bowed	nsubj
3	both	both	ADV	_	4 bowed	advmod
4	bowed	bow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	low	low	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 bowed	xcomp
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 replied	cc
7	replied	reply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 bowed	conj
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 place	mark
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 place	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 place	cop
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 king	det
12	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 place	nmod:poss
13	’s	's	PART	_	12 king	case
14	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 replied	ccomp
15	to	to	PART	_	16 command	mark
16	command	command	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 place	acl
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 theirs	cc
18	theirs	their	PRON	Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 command	obl
19	to	to	PART	_	20 obey	mark
20	obey	obey	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 command	xcomp
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 bowed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	bow	past	people		both, low property	vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	reply speech: assert	past	people not said here			vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is a	past	heart	the king's place		tree rules
4	command	to-infinitive	people not said here	people		vn order-58.3-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	obey not said to happen	to-infinitive	people not said here			vn abide_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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