The Yellow Fairy Book, The Flying Ship(24), sentence 106
So when the courtier arrived with the royal message he was told to take back word to the King that his orders should be obeyed.
Who acts: courtier, dinner · What happens: arrive, tell, take back, obey, order · To what, where: dinner, word, King, orders · 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 (courtier, dinner), 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 | _ | 12 told | advmod |
| 2 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 5 arrived | mark |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 courtier | det |
| 4 | courtier | courtier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 arrived | nsubj |
| 5 | arrived | arrive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 told | advcl |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 message | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 message | det |
| 8 | royal | royal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 message | amod |
| 9 | message | message | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 arrived | obl |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 told | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 told | aux:pass |
| 12 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 take | mark |
| 14 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 told | xcomp |
| 15 | back | back | ADV | _ | 14 take | advmod |
| 16 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 take | obj |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 King | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 King | det |
| 19 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 take | obl |
| 20 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 25 obeyed | mark |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 orders | nmod:poss |
| 22 | orders | order | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 obeyed | nsubj:pass |
| 23 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 obeyed | aux |
| 24 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 25 obeyed | aux:pass |
| 25 | obeyed | obey | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 take | advcl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | arrive | past | the courtier | with the royal message | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | past · passive | dinner | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | take back not said to happen | to-infinitive | dinner not said here | word | the King | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent word=Theme to king=Destination | |||
| 4 | obey | should · passive | dinner's orders | vn abide_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 5 | order | dinner | nom order «communication transitive»: poss=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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