The Yellow Fairy Book, The Magic Ring, sentence 110

But if he fails to execute this my royal command, then, as a just but mild monarch, I shall give orders that you and he are taken, and first dipped in tar and then in feathers, and you shall be executed in the market-place for the entertainment of my courtiers.’

Who acts: son, I, my · What happens: fail, execute, give, take, dip, command · To what, where: this, orders, you, market place, courtiers · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Magic Ring. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (son, I, my), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	6 execute	cc
2	if	if	SCONJ	_	4 fails	mark
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 fails	nsubj
4	fails	fail	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 execute	advcl
5	to	to	PART	_	6 execute	mark
6	execute	execute	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 execute	obj
8	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 command	nmod:poss
9	royal	royal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 command	amod
10	command	command	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 execute	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 then	punct
12	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 execute	advmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 monarch	punct
14	as	as	SCONJ	_	19 monarch	mark
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 monarch	det
16	just	just	ADV	_	19 monarch	advmod
17	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 monarch	cc
18	mild	mild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 monarch	amod
19	monarch	monarch	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 execute	parataxis
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 give	punct
21	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 give	nsubj
22	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 give	aux
23	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 execute	parataxis
24	orders	order	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 give	obj
25	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	30 taken	obj
26	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	30 taken	nsubj
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 taken	cc
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 taken	nsubj
29	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 taken	aux:pass
30	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 orders	acl:relcl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 dipped	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 dipped	cc
33	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	34 dipped	advmod
34	dipped	dip	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 give	parataxis
35	in	in	ADP	_	36 tar	case
36	tar	tar	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 dipped	obl
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 feathers	cc
38	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	40 feathers	advmod
39	in	in	ADP	_	40 feathers	case
40	feathers	feather	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 dipped	conj
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 executed	punct
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 executed	cc
43	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	46 executed	nsubj
44	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	46 executed	aux
45	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	46 executed	aux:pass
46	executed	execute	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	34 dipped	conj
47	in	in	ADP	_	51 place	case
48	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	51 place	det
49	market	market	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 place	compound
50	-	-	PUNCT	_	49 market	punct
51	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 executed	obl
52	for	for	ADP	_	54 entertainment	case
53	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	54 entertainment	det
54	entertainment	entertainment	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 place	nmod
55	of	of	ADP	_	57 courtiers	case
56	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	57 courtiers	nmod:poss
57	courtiers	courtier	NOUN	Number=Plur	54 entertainment	nmod
58	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 execute	punct
59	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 execute	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fail a condition, not said to happen	present	son					vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	execute	to-infinitive		this		then		tree rules
3	give	shall	I	orders				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent order=Theme
4	take	present · passive		you				vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme that=Destination
5	dip	participle					in tar; first property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in tar=Attribute
6	execute	shall · passive		you	the market place for the entertainment of my courtiers			vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
7	command		my					nom command «communication transitive»: poss=agent
8	entertain			my courtiers				nom entertainment «act transitive»: of=patient

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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