The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 31

If the king himself should enter, just say to him: ‘Here are three gifts I offer you in return for the services you demanded of me!’ and throw the tips of the serpent’s tongues at him, and hasten to the ship as fast as your legs will carry you.

Who acts: king, you, three gifts, legs · What happens: enter, say, be, offer, demand, throw · To what, where: king, three gifts, you, return, services, tips · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, you, three gifts, legs), 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	If	if	SCONJ	_	6 enter	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 king	det
3	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 enter	nsubj
4	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	6 enter	nsubj
5	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 enter	aux
6	enter	enter	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 say	advcl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 enter	punct
8	just	just	ADV	_	9 say	advmod
9	say	say	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	to	to	ADP	_	11 him	case
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 say	obl
12	:	:	PUNCT	_	19 offer	punct
13	‘	'	PUNCT	_	14 Here	punct
14	Here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	17 gifts	advmod
15	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 gifts	cop
16	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 gifts	nummod
17	gifts	gift	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 offer	nsubj
18	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 offer	nsubj
19	offer	offer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 say	parataxis
20	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	19 offer	obj
21	in	in	ADP	_	22 return	case
22	return	return	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 offer	obl
23	for	for	ADP	_	25 services	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 services	det
25	services	service	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 offer	obl
26	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	27 demanded	nsubj
27	demanded	demand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 services	acl:relcl
28	of	of	ADP	_	29 me	case
29	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 demanded	obl
30	!	!	PUNCT	_	19 offer	punct
31	’	'	PUNCT	_	19 offer	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 throw	cc
33	throw	throw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 offer	conj
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 tips	det
35	tips	tip	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 throw	obj
36	of	of	ADP	_	40 tongues	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 serpent	det
38	serpent	serpent	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 tongues	nmod:poss
39	’s	's	PART	_	38 serpent	case
40	tongues	tongue	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 tips	nmod
41	at	at	ADP	_	42 him	case
42	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 throw	obl
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 hasten	punct
44	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 hasten	cc
45	hasten	hasten	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	9 say	conj
46	to	to	ADP	_	48 ship	case
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 ship	det
48	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 hasten	obl
49	as	as	ADV	_	50 fast	advmod
50	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	45 hasten	advmod
51	as	as	SCONJ	_	55 carry	mark
52	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	53 legs	nmod:poss
53	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	55 carry	nsubj
54	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	55 carry	aux
55	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	50 fast	advcl
56	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	55 carry	obj
57	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 say	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	enter a condition, not said to happen	should	the king					vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	say speech: assert	imperative	you not said here		king			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient
3	is a	present		three gifts		here		tree rules
4	offer	present	three gifts	you		return	for the services goal	vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent you=Theme for service=Goal
5	demand speech: request	past	you	the services not said here			of me	vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme service=Precondition
6	throw	infinitive	three gifts not said here	the tips of the serpent's tongues			at king	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent tip=Theme at he=Destination
7	hasten	infinitive	you not said here			the ship	fast property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to ship=Destination
8	carry	future	your legs	you				vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme

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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