The Yellow Fairy Book, The Flying Ship(24), sentence 100

So he told another courtier to go to the Simpleton with the command that he and his comrades were instantly to eat up twelve oxen and twelve tons of bread.

Who acts: King · What happens: tell, go, eat up · To what, where: courtier, Simpleton, twelve oxen · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Flying Ship(24). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King), 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	_	3 told	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 told	nsubj
3	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	5 courtier	det
5	courtier	courtier	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 told	iobj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 go	mark
7	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 told	xcomp
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 Simpleton	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Simpleton	det
10	Simpleton	Simpleton	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 go	obl
11	with	with	ADP	_	13 command	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 command	det
13	command	command	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 go	obl
14	that	that	SCONJ	_	22 eat	mark
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 eat	nsubj
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 comrades	cc
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 comrades	nmod:poss
18	comrades	comrade	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 he	conj
19	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 eat	aux
20	instantly	instantly	ADV	_	22 eat	advmod
21	to	to	PART	_	22 eat	mark
22	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 go	advcl
23	up	up	ADP	_	22 eat	compound:prt
24	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	25 oxen	nummod
25	oxen	ox	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 eat	obj
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 tons	cc
27	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	28 tons	nummod
28	tons	ton	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 oxen	conj
29	of	of	ADP	_	30 bread	case
30	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 tons	nmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	King		another courtier			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent courtier=Recipient clause=Topic
2	go not said to happen	to-infinitive	King not said here			the Simpleton	with the command	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to simpleton=Initial_Location
3	eat up	past	King	twelve oxen and twelve tons of bread			instantly property	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ox=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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