The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 89

“Your master commands you to build the most magnificent palace that ever was seen,” replied she; “and you are to place it on the borders of the new garden.”

Who acts: master, you · What happens: command, build, see, reply, be · To what, where: you, magnificent palace, woman, place, borders · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (master, you), 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	_	4 commands	punct
2	Your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 master	nmod:poss
3	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 commands	nsubj
4	commands	command	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 commands	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 build	mark
7	build	build	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 commands	advcl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 palace	det
9	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	10 magnificent	advmod
10	magnificent	magnificent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 palace	amod
11	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 build	obj
12	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 seen	nsubj
13	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	15 seen	advmod
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 seen	aux:pass
15	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 palace	acl:relcl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 commands	punct
17	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 commands	punct
18	replied	reply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 commands	conj
19	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 replied	obj
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	4 commands	punct
21	“	"	PUNCT	_	26 place	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 place	cc
23	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	26 place	nsubj
24	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 place	cop
25	to	to	PART	_	26 place	mark
26	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 commands	conj
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 place	obj
28	on	on	ADP	_	30 borders	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 borders	det
30	borders	border	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 place	nmod
31	of	of	ADP	_	34 garden	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 garden	det
33	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 garden	amod
34	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 borders	nmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 commands	punct
36	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 commands	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	command in a quote	present	Your master	you			vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent you=Theme
2	build in a quote	to-infinitive	Your master not said here	the magnificent palace			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset palace=Product
3	see in a quote	past · passive		the magnificent palace		ever	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus
4	reply speech: assert	past	Your master not said here	woman			vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent she=Topic
5	is a in a quote	present	you	place	the borders of the new garden		tree rules

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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