The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 33

“That,” said the prince, “you will see if you order to be brought here the negro who will be found beneath the throne of the princess.”

Who acts: prince, you · What happens: say, see, order, bring, find · To what, where: That, negro · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince, 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	_	5 said	punct
2	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 said	obl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 That	punct
4	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 That	punct
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 prince	det
7	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 see	punct
9	“	"	PUNCT	_	12 see	punct
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 see	nsubj
11	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 see	aux
12	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 said	ccomp
13	if	if	SCONJ	_	15 order	mark
14	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	15 order	nsubj
15	order	order	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 see	ccomp
16	to	to	PART	_	18 brought	mark
17	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	18 brought	aux:pass
18	brought	bring	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 order	xcomp
19	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	18 brought	advmod
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 negro	det
21	negro	negro	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 brought	obj
22	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 found	nsubj
23	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 found	aux
24	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	25 found	aux:pass
25	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 negro	acl:relcl
26	beneath	beneath	ADP	_	28 throne	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 throne	det
28	throne	throne	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 found	obl
29	of	of	ADP	_	31 princess	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 princess	det
31	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 throne	nmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 see	punct
33	”	"	PUNCT	_	12 see	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the prince	That			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	see in a quote	future	you				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	order a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present	you				vn order-58.3-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	bring not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive · passive	you not said here	the negro	here		vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: negro=Theme
5	find in a quote	future · passive		the negro		beneath the throne of the princess	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic

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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