The Yellow Fairy Book, The Flying Ship(24), sentence 81

And he there and then decided to despatch one of his courtiers to the Simpleton, with the command that he was to fetch the King the healing water from the world’s end before he had finished his dinner.

Who acts: King · What happens: decide, despatch, be, finish · To what, where: one, end, dinner

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	And	and	CCONJ	_	6 decided	cc
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 decided	nsubj
3	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 decided	advmod
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 decided	cc
5	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 decided	advmod
6	decided	decide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 despatch	mark
8	despatch	despatch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 decided	xcomp
9	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 despatch	obj
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 courtiers	case
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 courtiers	nmod:poss
12	courtiers	courtier	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 one	nmod
13	to	to	ADP	_	15 Simpleton	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 Simpleton	det
15	Simpleton	Simpleton	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 courtiers	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 command	punct
17	with	with	ADP	_	19 command	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 command	det
19	command	command	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 despatch	parataxis
20	that	that	SCONJ	_	24 fetch	mark
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 fetch	nsubj
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 fetch	cop
23	to	to	PART	_	24 fetch	mark
24	fetch	fetch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 command	acl
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 King	det
26	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 fetch	obj
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 water	det
28	healing	healing	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 water	compound
29	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 fetch	obj
30	from	from	ADP	_	34 end	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 world	det
32	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 end	nmod:poss
33	’s	's	PART	_	32 world	case
34	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 fetch	obl
35	before	before	SCONJ	_	38 finished	mark
36	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 finished	nsubj
37	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 finished	aux
38	finished	finish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	24 fetch	advcl
39	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	40 dinner	nmod:poss
40	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 finished	obj
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 decided	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	decide	past	King		there	then		vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	despatch not said to happen	to-infinitive	King not said here	one of King's courtiers to the Simpleton				tree rules
3	is	past	King			from the world's end	fetch property	tree rules
4	finish	past · perfect	King	King's dinner				vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector dinner=Eventuality

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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