The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 38, sentence 106

‘What is your will?’ it asked; and Ciccu replied that he had been commanded to bring back the ring that the princess had flung away, as she rode past.

Who acts: voice, Ciccu, princess · What happens: ask, reply, command, bring back, fling away, ride · To what, where: Ciccu, ring, princess · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 38. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (voice, Ciccu, princess), 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	_	2 What	punct
2	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	9 asked	obj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 will	cop
4	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 will	nmod:poss
5	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 asked	parataxis
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 will	punct
7	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 will	punct
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 asked	nsubj
9	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 replied	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 replied	cc
12	Ciccu	Ciccu	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 replied	nsubj
13	replied	reply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 asked	parataxis
14	that	that	SCONJ	_	18 commanded	mark
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 commanded	nsubj
16	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 commanded	aux
17	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	18 commanded	aux:pass
18	commanded	command	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 replied	ccomp
19	to	to	PART	_	20 bring	mark
20	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 commanded	xcomp
21	back	back	ADV	_	20 bring	advmod
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 ring	det
23	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 bring	obj
24	that	that	SCONJ	_	28 flung	mark
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 princess	det
26	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 flung	nsubj:pass
27	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 flung	aux
28	flung	fling	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 bring	advcl
29	away	away	ADV	_	28 flung	advmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 rode	punct
31	as	as	SCONJ	_	33 rode	mark
32	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 rode	nsubj
33	rode	ride	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 flung	conj
34	past	past	ADV	_	33 rode	advmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 asked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	past	voice			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent what=Recipient
2	reply speech: assert	past	Ciccu			vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	command	past · perfect · passive		Ciccu		vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic
4	bring back not said to happen	to-infinitive		the ring		vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent ring=Theme
5	fling away	past · perfect · passive		the princess	away property	vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
6	ride	past	princess		past property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: 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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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