The Brown Fairy Book, Story Of The King Who Would Be Stronger Than Fate, sentence 172
“These are the king’s commands,” he answered; “go and do as I bid you.
Who acts: These, king commands · What happens: be, answer, go, do, bid · To what, where: you · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (These, king commands), 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 | _ | 7 commands | punct |
| 2 | These | this | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 5 king | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 king | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 king | det |
| 5 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 commands | compound |
| 6 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 5 king | case |
| 7 | commands | command | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 answered | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 commands | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 commands | punct |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 answered | nsubj |
| 11 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 go | punct |
| 13 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 go | punct |
| 14 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 11 answered | ccomp |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 do | cc |
| 16 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 14 go | conj |
| 17 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 19 bid | mark |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 bid | nsubj |
| 19 | bid | bid | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 do | advcl |
| 20 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 bid | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | These | 's the king | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | past | king commands | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | go in a quote | infinitive | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | do in a quote | infinitive | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | bid in a quote | past | king commands = command | you | 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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