The Red Fairy Book, Bushy Bride, sentence 70

‘Now he says that you are to make haste and throw yourself overboard,’ answered the step-mother.

Who acts: King, you · What happens: say, be, throw, answer · To what, where: yourself, step mother · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Bushy Bride. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, you), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	4 says	punct
2	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 says	advmod
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 says	nsubj
4	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 make	mark
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 make	nsubj
7	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 make	cop
8	to	to	PART	_	9 make	mark
9	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 answered	advcl
10	haste	haste	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 make	obj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 throw	cc
12	throw	throw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 make	conj
13	yourself	yourself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	12 throw	obj
14	overboard	overboard	ADV	_	12 throw	advmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 make	punct
16	’	'	PUNCT	_	17 answered	punct
17	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 says	ccomp
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 mother	det
19	step	step	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 mother	compound
20	-	-	PUNCT	_	19 step	punct
21	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 answered	obj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 says	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	King			now		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	is	present	you				make property	tree rules
3	throw	infinitive	you not said here	yourself			overboard property	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent yourself=Theme
4	answer speech: assert	past			the step mother			vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent mother=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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