The Blue Fairy Book, The Brave Little Tailor, sentence 129

The King comforted her, and said: “Leave your bedroom door open to-night, my servants shall stand outside, and when your husband is fast asleep they shall enter, bind him fast, and carry him on to a ship, which shall sail away out into the wide ocean.”

Who acts: King, servants, husband, ship · What happens: comfort, say, leave, stand, be, enter · To what, where: lad, bedroom door, husband, wide ocean · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brave Little Tailor. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, servants, husband, ship), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 King	det
2	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 comforted	nsubj
3	comforted	comfort	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 comforted	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 said	cc
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 comforted	conj
8	:	:	PUNCT	_	10 Leave	punct
9	“	"	PUNCT	_	10 Leave	punct
10	Leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 said	ccomp
11	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 door	nmod:poss
12	bedroom	bedroom	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 door	compound
13	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 Leave	obj
14	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 Leave	xcomp
15	to	to	ADP	_	17 night	case
16	-	-	PUNCT	_	15 to	punct
17	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 open	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 stand	punct
19	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 servants	nmod:poss
20	servants	servant	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 stand	nsubj
21	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 stand	aux
22	stand	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 Leave	conj
23	outside	outside	ADV	_	22 stand	advmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 enter	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 enter	cc
26	when	when	SCONJ	_	31 asleep	mark
27	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 husband	nmod:poss
28	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 asleep	nsubj
29	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 asleep	cop
30	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	31 asleep	advmod
31	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 enter	advcl
32	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 enter	nsubj
33	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 enter	aux
34	enter	enter	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 comforted	parataxis
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 bind	punct
36	bind	bind	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 enter	conj
37	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 bind	obj
38	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	36 bind	advmod
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 carry	punct
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 carry	cc
41	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 bind	conj
42	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 carry	obj
43	on	on	ADP	_	41 carry	compound:prt
44	to	to	ADP	_	46 ship	case
45	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	46 ship	det
46	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 carry	obl
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 sail	punct
48	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	50 sail	nsubj
49	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	50 sail	aux
50	sail	sail	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	46 ship	acl:relcl
51	away	away	ADV	_	50 sail	advmod
52	out	out	ADV	_	50 sail	advmod
53	into	into	ADP	_	56 ocean	case
54	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	56 ocean	det
55	wide	wide	ADJ	Degree=Pos	56 ocean	amod
56	ocean	ocean	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 sail	obl
57	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 comforted	punct
58	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 comforted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	comfort	past	the King	lad			tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	the King not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	leave in a quote	infinitive		your bedroom door		open property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent door=Theme
4	stand in a quote	shall	my servants			outside property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	is in a quote	present	your husband			asleep, fast property	tree rules
6	enter in a quote	shall	servants = servant				vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	bind in a quote	infinitive	servants = servant not said here	husband		fast property	vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient
8	carry on in a quote	infinitive	servants = servant not said here	husband		to a ship	vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent he=Theme
9	sail away in a quote	shall	a ship		the wide ocean	away, out property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent into ocean=Trajectory

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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