The Blue Fairy Book, The Bronze Ring, sentence 134

“Sire,” said the young captain, “order your daughter’s betrothed to be stripped, and see if the mark of my ring is not branded upon his back.”

Who acts: Sire, young captain · What happens: say, order, betroth, strip, see, not brand · To what, where: daughter, young captain, mark, ring · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Bronze Ring. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sire, young captain), 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 Sire	punct
2	Sire	sire	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Sire	punct
4	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Sire	punct
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 captain	det
7	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 captain	amod
8	captain	captain	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 betrothed	nsubj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 order	punct
10	“	"	PUNCT	_	11 order	punct
11	order	order	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 captain	acl:relcl
12	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 daughter	nmod:poss
13	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 order	obj
14	’s	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 betrothed	aux:pass
15	betrothed	betroth	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 said	ccomp
16	to	to	PART	_	18 stripped	mark
17	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	18 stripped	aux:pass
18	stripped	strip	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 betrothed	xcomp
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 see	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 see	cc
21	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 said	ccomp
22	if	if	SCONJ	_	30 branded	mark
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 mark	det
24	mark	mark	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 branded	nsubj:pass
25	of	of	ADP	_	27 ring	case
26	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 ring	nmod:poss
27	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 mark	nmod
28	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 branded	aux:pass
29	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	30 branded	advmod
30	branded	brand	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 see	ccomp
31	upon	upon	ADP	_	33 back	case
32	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 back	nmod:poss
33	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 branded	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	21 see	punct
35	”	"	PUNCT	_	21 see	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Sire				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	order in a quote	infinitive	the young captain not said here		your daughter		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Theme
3	betroth in a quote	present · passive		the young captain			tree rules
4	strip in a quote	to-infinitive · passive					vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»
5	see in a quote	infinitive					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
6	not brand a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present · passive		the mark of my ring		upon captain's back	vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
7	mark in a quote			my ring			nom mark «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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