The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 38, sentence 67

So he sent for him and said, ‘Ciccu, unless within eight days you bring me the fairest in the whole world, I will have you hewn into a thousand pieces.’

Who acts: king, you, I · What happens: send, say, bring, have, hewn · To what, where: Ciccu, fairest, me, whole world, you, thousand pieces · 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 (king, you, I), 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	for	for	ADP	_	5 him	case
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 sent	obl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 said	cc
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sent	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 Ciccu	punct
9	‘	'	PUNCT	_	10 Ciccu	punct
10	Ciccu	Ciccu	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 said	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 bring	punct
12	unless	unless	SCONJ	_	17 bring	mark
13	within	within	ADP	_	15 days	case
14	eight	eight	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 days	nummod
15	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 bring	obl
16	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 bring	nsubj
17	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 said	conj
18	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 bring	obj
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 fairest	det
20	fairest	fair	ADJ	Degree=Sup	17 bring	obj
21	in	in	ADP	_	24 world	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 world	det
23	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 world	amod
24	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 bring	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 have	punct
26	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 have	nsubj
27	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 have	aux
28	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 bring	parataxis
29	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	28 have	obj
30	hewn	hewn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 have	xcomp
31	into	into	ADP	_	34 pieces	case
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 thousand	det
33	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	34 pieces	nummod
34	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 hewn	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 sent	punct
36	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 sent	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	send	past	king					for Ciccu	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	past	king not said here	Ciccu					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	bring a condition, not said to happen	infinitive	you	the fairest	me	the whole world	day		vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent i=Destination fair=Theme
4	have	future	I	you					tree rules
5	hewn	participle	you not said here			thousand pieces			tree rules

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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