The Red Fairy Book, The Golden Branch, part 2, sentence 6

So he sent back to the guards to say that the Prince was to be treated as severely as before, which was just what they had hoped he would say.

Who acts: Grumpy · What happens: send back, say, treat, be, hope · To what, where: guards, Prince · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Branch, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Grumpy), 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 sent	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 sent	nsubj
3	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	back	back	ADV	_	3 sent	advmod
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 guards	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 guards	det
7	guards	guard	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 sent	obl
8	to	to	PART	_	9 say	mark
9	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 sent	advcl
10	that	that	SCONJ	_	16 treated	mark
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Prince	det
12	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 treated	nsubj:pass
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 treated	aux
14	to	to	PART	_	16 treated	mark
15	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	16 treated	aux:pass
16	treated	treat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 say	ccomp
17	as	as	ADV	_	18 severely	advmod
18	severely	severely	ADV	_	16 treated	advmod
19	as	as	ADP	_	20 before	case
20	before	before	ADV	_	18 severely	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 what	punct
22	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 what	nsubj
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 what	cop
24	just	just	ADV	_	25 what	advmod
25	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	16 treated	obl
26	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 hoped	nsubj:pass
27	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 hoped	aux
28	hoped	hope	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 what	acl:relcl
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 say	nsubj
30	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 say	aux
31	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 hoped	ccomp
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 sent	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	send back	past	Grumpy		the guards		vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to guard=Destination
2	say speech: assert	to-infinitive	Grumpy not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	treat	past · passive		the Prince		severely property	vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient
4	is a	past					tree rules
5	hope	past · perfect · passive		guards = guard			tree rules
6	say speech: assert	would	Grumpy				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

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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