The Brown Fairy Book, Story Of The King Who Would Be Stronger Than Fate, sentence 156
“Behead the messenger who brings this letter secretly and at once.
Who acts: you, messenger · What happens: behead, bring · To what, where: messenger, letter
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 (you, messenger), 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 | _ | 2 Behead | punct |
| 2 | Behead | behead | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 messenger | det |
| 4 | messenger | messenger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Behead | obj |
| 5 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 brings | nsubj |
| 6 | brings | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 messenger | acl:relcl |
| 7 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 letter | det |
| 8 | letter | letter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 brings | obj |
| 9 | secretly | secretly | ADV | _ | 6 brings | advmod |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 once | cc |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 once | case |
| 12 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 9 secretly | conj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Behead | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | behead in a quote | imperative | you not said here | the messenger | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent messenger=Patient | ||||
| 2 | bring in a quote | present | the messenger | this letter | secretly property | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent letter=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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