The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 39, sentence 64

So it was settled, and then the king bade one of his lords go to Don Giovanni and ask him when the wedding day was to be, so that the princess might make ready.

Who acts: king bade, princess · What happens: settle, go, ask, be · To what, where: neck, Don, bade

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 39. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king bade, 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	So	so	ADV	_	4 settled	advmod
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 settled	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 settled	aux:pass
4	settled	settle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 go	advcl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 settled	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 bade	cc
7	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	10 bade	advmod
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 king	det
9	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 bade	compound
10	bade	bade	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 go	nsubj
11	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 bade	flat
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 lords	case
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 lords	nmod:poss
14	lords	lord	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 one	nmod
15	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	to	to	ADP	_	17 Don	case
17	Don	Don	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 go	obl
18	Giovanni	Giovanni	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 Don	flat
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 ask	cc
20	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 go	conj
21	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 ask	obj
22	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	35 make	advmod
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 day	det
24	wedding	wedding	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 day	compound
25	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 make	obl:unmarked
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 make	cop
27	to	to	PART	_	35 make	mark
28	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	35 make	cop
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 make	punct
30	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	35 make	mark
31	that	that	SCONJ	_	30 so	fixed
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 princess	det
33	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 make	nsubj
34	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	35 make	aux
35	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 ask	advcl
36	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 make	xcomp
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 go	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	settle	past · passive		neck					vn odge-46-1 «NP V ADV»: subject=Location
2	go	present	king bade			Don			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to don=Initial_Location
3	ask speech: ask	infinitive	king bade not said here		bade				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
4	is	might · past	the princess				day	make, ready property	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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