The Brown Fairy Book, Story Of The King Who Would Be Stronger Than Fate, sentence 114

He was determined, however, to try once more, and bidding the young man come into his presence that evening, gave orders that he was to carry a secret despatch to the governor of a distant province.

Who acts: Nur · What happens: be, try, bid, come, give · To what, where: young man, presence, orders

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story Of The King Who Would Be Stronger Than Fate. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Nur), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 determined	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 determined	cop
3	determined	determined	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 try	punct
5	however	however	ADV	_	8 try	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 try	punct
7	to	to	PART	_	8 try	mark
8	try	try	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 determined	parataxis
9	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	10 more	advmod
10	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	8 try	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 come	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 come	cc
13	bidding	bid	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	17 come	nsubj
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 man	det
15	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 man	amod
16	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 bidding	obj
17	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 try	conj
18	into	into	ADP	_	20 presence	case
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 presence	nmod:poss
20	presence	presence	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 come	obl
21	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	22 evening	det
22	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 come	obl:unmarked
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 gave	punct
24	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 come	conj
25	orders	order	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 gave	obj
26	that	that	SCONJ	_	30 carry	mark
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 carry	nsubj
28	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 carry	cop
29	to	to	PART	_	30 carry	mark
30	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 gave	advcl
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 despatch	det
32	secret	secret	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 despatch	amod
33	despatch	despatch	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 carry	obj
34	to	to	ADP	_	36 governor	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 governor	det
36	governor	governor	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 carry	obl
37	of	of	ADP	_	40 province	case
38	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	40 province	det
39	distant	distant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 province	amod
40	province	province	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 governor	nmod
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 determined	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Nur				determined property	tree rules
2	try	to-infinitive					however property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
3	bid	gerund		the young man				tree rules
4	come	infinitive			Nur's presence	evening		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into presence=Initial_Location
5	give	past		orders				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent order=Theme
6	is	past	Nur				to the governor of a distant province; carry property	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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