The Red Fairy Book, The Norka, sentence 104

The King has called all the workmen together, but not one of them will undertake to do it.’

Who acts: one · What happens: call, undertake, do · To what, where: King, world · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Norka. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one), 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	4 called	nsubj:pass
3	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 called	aux
4	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 workmen	det:predet
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 workmen	det
7	workmen	workman	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 called	xcomp
8	together	together	ADV	_	4 called	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 undertake	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 undertake	cc
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 one	advmod
12	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 undertake	nsubj
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 them	case
14	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 one	nmod
15	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 undertake	aux
16	undertake	undertake	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 called	ccomp
17	to	to	PART	_	18 do	mark
18	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 undertake	xcomp
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 do	obj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 undertake	punct
21	’	'	PUNCT	_	16 undertake	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	call speech: assert	present · perfect · passive		the King	together property	tree rules
2	undertake	future	one of King			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	do	to-infinitive	one of King not said here	world		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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 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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