The Yellow Fairy Book, The Golden Crab(5), sentence 18

He said, therefore, to the fisherman’s wife, ‘Go, old woman, and tell the Crab I will give him my daughter if by to-morrow morning he can build a wall in front of my castle much higher than my tower, upon which all the flowers of the world must grow and bloom.’

Who acts: King, I, flowers · What happens: say, tell, give, build, grow, bloom · To what, where: Crab, daughter, King, wall, front · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Crab(5). 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, flowers), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 said	nsubj
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 therefore	punct
4	therefore	therefore	ADV	_	2 said	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 wife	punct
6	to	to	ADP	_	10 wife	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 fisherman	det
8	fisherman	fisherman	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 wife	nmod:poss
9	’s	's	PART	_	8 fisherman	case
10	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 said	parataxis
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 Go	punct
12	‘	'	PUNCT	_	13 Go	punct
13	Go	Go	PROPN	_	10 wife	appos
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 woman	punct
15	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 woman	amod
16	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 wife	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 tell	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 tell	cc
19	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 said	parataxis
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 Crab	det
21	Crab	crab	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 tell	obj
22	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 give	nsubj
23	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 give	aux
24	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 tell	conj
25	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 give	iobj
26	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 daughter	nmod:poss
27	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 give	obj
28	if	if	SCONJ	_	36 build	mark
29	by	by	ADP	_	33 morning	case
30	to	to	ADP	_	33 morning	case
31	-	-	PUNCT	_	30 to	punct
32	morrow	morrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 morning	compound
33	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 build	obl
34	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 build	nsubj
35	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	36 build	aux
36	build	build	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 give	advcl
37	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 wall	det
38	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 build	obj
39	in	in	ADP	_	40 front	case
40	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 build	obl
41	of	of	ADP	_	43 castle	case
42	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	43 castle	nmod:poss
43	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 front	nmod
44	much	much	ADV	_	45 higher	advmod
45	higher	high	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	43 castle	amod
46	than	than	ADP	_	48 tower	case
47	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	48 tower	nmod:poss
48	tower	tower	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 higher	obl
49	,	,	PUNCT	_	59 grow	punct
50	upon	upon	ADP	_	51 which	case
51	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	59 grow	obl
52	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	54 flowers	det:predet
53	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	54 flowers	det
54	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	59 grow	nsubj
55	of	of	ADP	_	57 world	case
56	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	57 world	det
57	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 flowers	nmod
58	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	59 grow	aux
59	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 build	conj
60	and	and	CCONJ	_	61 bloom	cc
61	bloom	bloom	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	59 grow	conj
62	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 tell	punct
63	’	'	PUNCT	_	19 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	King					therefore property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	tell speech: assert	infinitive			the Crab				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent crab=Recipient
3	give	future	I	my daughter	King				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient daughter=Theme
4	build a condition, not said to happen	can	King	a wall		front of my castle	morning		vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wall=Product
5	grow	must	all flowers of the world						vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon which=Location
6	bloom	infinitive	all flowers of the world not said here						vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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