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The Blue Fairy Book, The Wonderful Sheep, part 1, sentence 42

The King has commanded me to kill you here, and carry your heart and your tongue to him, and if I disobey I shall lose my life.”

Who acts: King, I · What happens: command, kill, carry, disobey, lose · To what, where: me, you, heart, king, life · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Wonderful Sheep, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, I), 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

detnsubjauxobjmarkadvclobjadvmodpunctccparataxisnmod:possobjccnmod:possconjcaseoblpunctccmarknsubjadvclnsubjauxparataxisnmod:possobjpunctpunctrootTheDETKingPROPNhasAUXcommandedVERBmePRONtoPARTkillVERByouPRONhereADV,PUNCTandCCONJcarryVERByourPRONheartNOUNandCCONJyourPRONtongueNOUNtoADPhimPRON,PUNCTandCCONJifSCONJIPRONdisobeyVERBIPRONshallAUXloseVERBmyPRONlifeNOUN.PUNCT”PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1ThetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art2 Kingdet
2KingKingPROPNNumber=Sing4 commandednsubj
3hashaveAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin4 commandedaux
4commandedcommandVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Partrootroot
5meIPRONCase=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs4 commandedobj
6totoPART_7 killmark
7killkillVERBVerbForm=Inf4 commandedadvcl
8youyouPRONCase=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs7 killobj
9herehereADVPronType=Dem7 killadvmod
10,,PUNCT_12 carrypunct
11andandCCONJ_12 carrycc
12carrycarryVERBMood=Imp VerbForm=Fin4 commandedparataxis
13youryourPRONCase=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs14 heartnmod:poss
14heartheartNOUNNumber=Sing12 carryobj
15andandCCONJ_17 tonguecc
16youryourPRONCase=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs17 tonguenmod:poss
17tonguetongueNOUNNumber=Sing14 heartconj
18totoADP_19 himcase
19himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs12 carryobl
20,,PUNCT_27 losepunct
21andandCCONJ_27 losecc
22ififSCONJ_24 disobeymark
23IIPRONCase=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs24 disobeynsubj
24disobeydisobeyVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin27 loseadvcl
25IIPRONCase=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs27 losensubj
26shallshallAUXVerbForm=Fin27 loseaux
27loseloseVERBVerbForm=Inf4 commandedparataxis
28mymyPRONCase=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs29 lifenmod:poss
29lifelifeNOUNNumber=Sing27 loseobj
30..PUNCT_27 losepunct
31”"PUNCT_4 commandedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1commandpresent · perfectthe Kingmevn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent i=Theme
2killto-infinitivethe King not said hereyouherevn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme
3carryinfinitiveyour heart and your tonguekingvn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent heart=Theme to he=Destination
4disobey a condition, not said to happenpresentItree rules
5loseshallImy lifevn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Eventuality

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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