The Blue Fairy Book, The Water-lily. the Gold-spinners, sentence 35

Then he said to the wind wizard’s son: “Beg the raven to fly quickly back to the maiden and tell her to be ready on the ninth night, for then will I come and fetch her away.”

Who acts: prince · What happens: say, beg, fly back, tell, be, come · To what, where: son, raven, thread · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Water-lily. the Gold-spinners. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 said	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 said	nsubj
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	9 son	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 wizard	det
6	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 wizard	compound
7	wizard	wizard	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 son	nmod:poss
8	’s	's	PART	_	7 wizard	case
9	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 said	obl
10	:	:	PUNCT	_	12 Beg	punct
11	“	"	PUNCT	_	12 Beg	punct
12	Beg	beg	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 said	ccomp
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 raven	det
14	raven	raven	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 Beg	obj
15	to	to	PART	_	16 fly	mark
16	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 Beg	advcl
17	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	16 fly	advmod
18	back	back	ADV	_	16 fly	advmod
19	to	to	ADP	_	21 maiden	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 maiden	det
21	maiden	maiden	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 fly	obl
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 tell	cc
23	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 Beg	conj
24	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 tell	iobj
25	to	to	PART	_	27 ready	mark
26	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	27 ready	cop
27	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 tell	ccomp
28	on	on	ADP	_	31 night	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 night	det
30	ninth	ninth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 night	amod
31	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 ready	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 come	punct
33	for	for	SCONJ	_	37 come	mark
34	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	37 come	advmod
35	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	37 come	aux
36	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	37 come	nsubj
37	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 Beg	conj
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 fetch	cc
39	fetch	fetch	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	37 come	conj
40	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 fetch	obj
41	away	away	ADV	_	39 fetch	advmod
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 Beg	punct
43	”	"	PUNCT	_	12 Beg	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	prince		the wind wizard's son	then		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to son=Recipient clause=Topic
2	beg speech: request in a quote	infinitive		the raven				vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent raven=Recipient
3	fly back in a quote	to-infinitive					to the maiden result; quickly property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to maiden=Result
4	tell speech: assert in a quote	infinitive			thread			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient
5	is not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive				night	ready property	tree rules
6	come in a quote	future	prince			then		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	fetch away in a quote	infinitive	prince not said here	thread			away property	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=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 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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