The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 2, sentence 36

Then Ferko went straight to the palace and told the King that he was ready to perform the third task if he would come to the hill and see it done.

Who acts: Ferko, hill · What happens: go, tell, be, perform, come, see · To what, where: palace, King, third task, hill · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ferko, hill), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 went	advmod
2	Ferko	Ferko	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 went	nsubj
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	straight	straight	ADV	_	7 palace	advmod
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 palace	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 palace	det
7	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 went	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 told	cc
9	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	conj
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 King	det
11	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 told	iobj
12	that	that	SCONJ	_	15 ready	mark
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 ready	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 ready	cop
15	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 told	ccomp
16	to	to	PART	_	17 perform	mark
17	perform	perform	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 ready	xcomp
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 task	det
19	third	third	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	20 task	amod
20	task	task	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 perform	obj
21	if	if	SCONJ	_	24 come	mark
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 come	nsubj
23	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 come	aux
24	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 perform	advcl
25	to	to	ADP	_	27 hill	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 hill	det
27	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 come	obl
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 see	cc
29	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 come	conj
30	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 see	obj
31	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	29 see	xcomp
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	Ferko			the palace	then		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to palace=Initial_Location
2	tell speech: assert	past	Ferko not said here		the King				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent king=Recipient
3	is	past	Ferko					ready property	tree rules
4	perform	to-infinitive	Ferko not said here	the third task					vn performance-26.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent task=Theme
5	come a condition, not said to happen	would	Ferko			the hill			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to hill=Initial_Location
6	see	infinitive	Ferko not said here	hill					tree rules
7	do	participle	hill not said here						vn act-114-1 «NP 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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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