The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Pig, sentence 79
Obey him, and do everything that he wishes, and I feel sure that Heaven will shortly send you release.’
Who acts: you, King, I, Heaven · What happens: obey, do, wish, feel, send, release · To what, where: King, everything
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Pig. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, King, I, Heaven), 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 | Obey | obey | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Obey | obj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 do | punct |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 do | cc |
| 5 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Obey | conj |
| 6 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 5 do | obj |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 wishes | mark |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 wishes | nsubj |
| 9 | wishes | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 do | advcl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 feel | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 feel | cc |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 feel | nsubj |
| 13 | feel | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Obey | advcl |
| 14 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 feel | xcomp |
| 15 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 19 send | mark |
| 16 | Heaven | Heaven | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 send | nsubj |
| 17 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 send | aux |
| 18 | shortly | shortly | ADV | _ | 19 send | advmod |
| 19 | send | send | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 sure | ccomp |
| 20 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 21 release | nsubj |
| 21 | release | release | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 send | ccomp |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Obey | punct |
| 23 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 1 Obey | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | obey | imperative | you not said here | King | vn abide_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 2 | do | infinitive | you not said here | everything | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everything=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | wish | present | King | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 4 | feel | present | I | sure property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | send | future | Heaven | shortly property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | release | present | you | vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Causer |
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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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