The Yellow Fairy Book, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 1, sentence 59

He commanded the master to come before him, and said, ‘If you will take gold, and give up your right to my daughter, you shall have as much as you like.’

Who acts: King, you · What happens: command, come, say, take, give up, have · To what, where: master, gold, right, daughter, much · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 1. 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), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 commanded	nsubj
2	commanded	command	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 master	det
4	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 commanded	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 come	mark
6	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 commanded	advcl
7	before	before	ADP	_	8 him	case
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 come	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 said	cc
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 commanded	parataxis
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 take	punct
13	‘	'	PUNCT	_	17 take	punct
14	If	if	SCONJ	_	17 take	mark
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 take	nsubj
16	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 take	aux
17	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 said	ccomp
18	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 take	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 give	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 give	cc
21	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 take	conj
22	up	up	ADP	_	21 give	compound:prt
23	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 right	nmod:poss
24	right	right	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 give	obj
25	to	to	ADP	_	27 daughter	case
26	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 daughter	nmod:poss
27	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 give	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 have	punct
29	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	31 have	nsubj
30	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 have	aux
31	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 take	conj
32	as	as	ADV	_	33 much	advmod
33	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 have	obj
34	as	as	SCONJ	_	36 like	mark
35	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	36 like	nsubj
36	like	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 much	advcl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 commanded	punct
38	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 commanded	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	roles by
1	command	past	King	the master			vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.predicate»: agent=Agent master=Eventuality
2	come	to-infinitive	King not said here			before King	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before he=Location
3	say speech: assert	past					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	take a condition, not said to happen	future	you	gold			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gold=Theme
5	give up	infinitive	you not said here	your right	my daughter		vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent right=Theme to daughter=Recipient
6	have	shall	you	much			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent much=Patient
7	like	present	you				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot

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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