The Blue Fairy Book, The Princess on the Glass Hill, sentence 104
So he commanded that everyone in the kingdom should come to the palace, and see if he could show the apple.
Who acts: man, everyone · What happens: command, come, see, show · To what, where: palace, apple · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Princess on the Glass Hill. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, everyone), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 commanded | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 commanded | nsubj |
| 3 | commanded | command | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 come | mark |
| 5 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 10 come | nsubj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 kingdom | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 kingdom | det |
| 8 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 everyone | nmod |
| 9 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 come | aux |
| 10 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 commanded | ccomp |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 palace | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 palace | det |
| 13 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 come | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 see | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 see | cc |
| 16 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 come | conj |
| 17 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 20 show | mark |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 show | nsubj |
| 19 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 show | aux |
| 20 | show | show | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 see | advcl |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 apple | det |
| 22 | apple | apple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 show | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 commanded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | command | past | man | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | come | should | everyone | the palace | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to palace=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | see | infinitive | everyone not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | show a condition, not said to happen | could | man | the apple | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent apple=Recipient |
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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