The Yellow Fairy Book, The Flying Ship(24), sentence 141
So he sent him royal robes and costly jewels, and commanded him to come to the palace to be married to the Princess.
Who acts: monarch · What happens: send, command, come, marry · To what, where: royal robes, King, monarch, palace · 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 (monarch), 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 sent | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 sent | nsubj |
| 3 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 sent | obj |
| 5 | royal | royal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 robes | amod |
| 6 | robes | robe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 sent | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 jewels | cc |
| 8 | costly | costly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 jewels | amod |
| 9 | jewels | jewel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 robes | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 commanded | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 commanded | cc |
| 12 | commanded | command | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 sent | conj |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 commanded | obj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 come | mark |
| 15 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 commanded | xcomp |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 palace | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 palace | det |
| 18 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 come | obl |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 married | mark |
| 20 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 21 married | aux:pass |
| 21 | married | marry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 palace | acl |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 Princess | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 Princess | det |
| 24 | Princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 married | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | past | monarch | royal robes and costly jewels | King | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Destination robe=Theme | |||
| 2 | command | past | monarch not said here | monarch | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | come not said to happen | to-infinitive | monarch not said here | the palace | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to palace=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | marry | to-infinitive · passive | monarch not said here | to the Princess | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: to princess=Co-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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