The Red Fairy Book, The Black Thief and Knight of the Glen., sentence 44

I am resolved, therefore, not to stay here, but to go with them, let what will betide; and I request and command, according to my bargain, that the Queen shall stand on the highest tower of the palace until we come back (or find out that we are certainly dead), with nothing but sheaf corn for her food and cold water for her drink, if it should be for seven years and longer.’

Who acts: I, Queen, we, drink, my · What happens: resolve, not stay, go, let, betide, request · To what, where: I, highest tower · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Black Thief and Knight of the Glen.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, Queen, we, drink), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 resolved	nsubj
2	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 resolved	aux:pass
3	resolved	resolve	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 therefore	punct
5	therefore	therefore	ADV	_	3 resolved	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 stay	punct
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 stay	advmod
8	to	to	PART	_	9 stay	mark
9	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 resolved	parataxis
10	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 stay	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 go	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 go	cc
13	to	to	PART	_	14 go	mark
14	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 stay	conj
15	with	with	ADP	_	16 them	case
16	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 go	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 let	punct
18	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 go	conj
19	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	21 betide	obj
20	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 betide	aux
21	betide	betide	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 let	xcomp
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 request	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 request	cc
24	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 request	nsubj
25	request	request	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 resolved	parataxis
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 command	cc
27	command	command	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 request	conj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 bargain	punct
29	according	accord	VERB	ExtPos=ADP Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	32 bargain	case
30	to	to	ADP	_	29 according	fixed
31	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 bargain	nmod:poss
32	bargain	bargain	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 command	obl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 stand	punct
34	that	that	SCONJ	_	38 stand	mark
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 Queen	det
36	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	38 stand	nsubj
37	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	38 stand	aux
38	stand	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 request	conj
39	on	on	ADP	_	42 tower	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 tower	det
41	highest	high	ADJ	Degree=Sup	42 tower	amod
42	tower	tower	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 stand	obl
43	of	of	ADP	_	45 palace	case
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 palace	det
45	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 tower	nmod
46	until	until	SCONJ	_	48 come	mark
47	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	48 come	nsubj
48	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	38 stand	advcl
49	back	back	ADV	_	48 come	advmod
50	(	(	PUNCT	_	52 find	punct
51	or	or	CCONJ	_	52 find	cc
52	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	38 stand	conj
53	out	out	ADP	_	52 find	compound:prt
54	that	that	SCONJ	_	58 dead	mark
55	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	58 dead	nsubj
56	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	58 dead	cop
57	certainly	certainly	ADV	_	58 dead	advmod
58	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	52 find	advcl
59	)	)	PUNCT	_	52 find	punct
60	,	,	PUNCT	_	62 nothing	punct
61	with	with	ADP	_	62 nothing	case
62	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	38 stand	obl
63	but	but	CCONJ	_	65 corn	cc
64	sheaf	sheaf	NOUN	Number=Sing	65 corn	compound
65	corn	corn	NOUN	Number=Sing	62 nothing	conj
66	for	for	ADP	_	68 food	case
67	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	68 food	nmod:poss
68	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	62 nothing	nmod
69	and	and	CCONJ	_	71 water	cc
70	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	71 water	amod
71	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	68 food	conj
72	for	for	ADP	_	74 drink	case
73	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	74 drink	nmod:poss
74	drink	drink	NOUN	Number=Sing	62 nothing	nmod
75	,	,	PUNCT	_	82 years	punct
76	if	if	SCONJ	_	82 years	mark
77	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	82 years	nsubj
78	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	82 years	aux
79	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	82 years	cop
80	for	for	ADP	_	82 years	case
81	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	82 years	nummod
82	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 stand	obl:unmarked
83	and	and	CCONJ	_	84 longer	cc
84	longer	long	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	82 years	conj
85	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 resolved	punct
86	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 resolved	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	resolve	present · passive		I			therefore property	tree rules
2	not stay	to-infinitive			here			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	go	to-infinitive					with Princes = prince	vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with they=Beneficiary
4	let	infinitive						tree rules
5	betide	future						tree rules
6	request	present	I					vn beg-58.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent
7	command	present	I not said here				accord my bargain	vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.predicate»: agent=Agent
8	accord	gerund						vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent
9	stand	shall	the Queen		the highest tower of the palace		with nothing	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on tower=Location
10	come back	present	we					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
11	find out	infinitive	the Queen not said here					vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent
12	is	present	we				certainly, dead property	tree rules
13	is a condition, not said to happen	should	drink			for seven years		tree rules
14	be		drink not said here					tree rules
15	bargain		my					nom bargain «communication intransitive»: poss=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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