The Yellow Fairy Book, The Flower Queen’s Daughter(23), sentence 76

In a moment the King of the Fishes appeared, and said to him: ‘I know quite well what you want me to do, and I will summon all the fishes of the sea together, and tell them to bring you back the mare, who is hiding herself in a river.’

Who acts: King, I, you, me, mare · What happens: appear, say, know, want, do, summon · To what, where: King, me, fishes, mare, you, river · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Flower Queen’s Daughter(23). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, I, you, me), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 moment	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 moment	det
3	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 appeared	obl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 King	det
5	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 appeared	nsubj
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 Fishes	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Fishes	det
8	Fishes	Fish	PROPN	Number=Plur	5 King	nmod
9	appeared	appear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 said	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 said	cc
12	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 appeared	conj
13	to	to	ADP	_	14 him	case
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 said	obl
15	:	:	PUNCT	_	18 know	punct
16	‘	'	PUNCT	_	18 know	punct
17	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 know	nsubj
18	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 said	ccomp
19	quite	quite	ADV	_	20 well	advmod
20	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	18 know	advmod
21	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	23 want	obj
22	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	23 want	nsubj
23	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 know	ccomp
24	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 want	obj
25	to	to	PART	_	26 do	mark
26	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 want	xcomp
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 summon	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 summon	cc
29	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	31 summon	nsubj
30	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 summon	aux
31	summon	summon	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 know	conj
32	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	34 fishes	det:predet
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 fishes	det
34	fishes	fish	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 summon	obj
35	of	of	ADP	_	37 sea	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 sea	det
37	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 fishes	nmod
38	together	together	ADV	_	31 summon	advmod
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 tell	punct
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 tell	cc
41	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 appeared	conj
42	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 tell	iobj
43	to	to	PART	_	44 bring	mark
44	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	41 tell	xcomp
45	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	44 bring	obj
46	back	back	ADV	_	44 bring	advmod
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 mare	det
48	mare	mare	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 bring	obj
49	,	,	PUNCT	_	52 hiding	punct
50	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	52 hiding	nsubj
51	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	52 hiding	aux
52	hiding	hide	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	48 mare	acl:relcl
53	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	52 hiding	obj
54	in	in	ADP	_	56 river	case
55	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	56 river	det
56	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 hiding	obl
57	.	.	PUNCT	_	41 tell	punct
58	’	'	PUNCT	_	41 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	appear	past	the King of the Fishes				moment		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	the King of the Fishes not said here		King				vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to he=Experiencer clause=Topic
3	know	present	I					well property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	want	present	you	me					tree rules
5	do not said to happen	to-infinitive	me not said here						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	summon	future	I		all fishes of the sea			together property	vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fish=Recipient
7	tell speech: assert	infinitive	the King of the Fishes not said here		Fishes = fish				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic
8	bring back not said to happen	to-infinitive	the King of the Fishes not said here	the mare	you				vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent you=Destination mare=Theme
9	hide	present · progressive	the mare	mare		a river			vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent herself=Patient in river=Location

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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