The Yellow Fairy Book, The Golden Crab(5), sentence 29

Answer him thus: ‘’Your master, the King, has sent me to tell you that you must send him his golden garment that is like the sun.’’ Make him give you, besides, the queenly robes of gold and precious stones which are like the flowery meadows, and bring them both to me.

Who acts: you, golden garment, man, queenly robes · What happens: answer, send, tell, be, make, give · To what, where: man, master, you, golden garment, meadows, me · 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 (you, golden garment, man, queenly robes), 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	Answer	answer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Answer	obj
3	thus	thus	ADV	_	1 Answer	advmod
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	13 sent	punct
5	‘’	‘'	PUNCT	_	13 sent	punct
6	Your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 master	nmod:poss
7	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 sent	nsubj:pass
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 King	punct
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 King	det
10	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 master	appos
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 master	punct
12	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 sent	aux
13	sent	send	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Answer	parataxis
14	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 sent	obj
15	to	to	PART	_	16 tell	mark
16	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 sent	advcl
17	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 tell	iobj
18	that	that	SCONJ	_	21 send	mark
19	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	21 send	nsubj
20	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 send	aux
21	send	send	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 tell	xcomp
22	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 send	obj
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 garment	nmod:poss
24	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 garment	amod
25	garment	garment	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 send	obj
26	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	30 sun.	nsubj
27	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 sun.	cop
28	like	like	ADP	_	30 sun.	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 sun.	det
30	sun.	sun.	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 garment	acl:relcl
31	’’	''	PUNCT	_	30 sun.	punct
32	Make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 send	advcl
33	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 Make	obj
34	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 Make	xcomp
35	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	34 give	iobj
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 robes	punct
37	besides	besides	INTJ	_	41 robes	discourse
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 besides	punct
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 robes	det
40	queenly	queenly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 robes	amod
41	robes	robe	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 sent	obl
42	of	of	ADP	_	43 gold	case
43	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 robes	nmod
44	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 stones	cc
45	precious	precious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 stones	amod
46	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	41 robes	conj
47	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	52 meadows	nsubj
48	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	52 meadows	cop
49	like	like	ADP	_	52 meadows	case
50	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	52 meadows	det
51	flowery	flowery	ADJ	Degree=Pos	52 meadows	amod
52	meadows	meadow	NOUN	Number=Plur	41 robes	conj
53	,	,	PUNCT	_	55 bring	punct
54	and	and	CCONJ	_	55 bring	cc
55	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Answer	conj
56	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	55 bring	obj
57	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	55 bring	obj
58	to	to	ADP	_	59 me	case
59	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	55 bring	obl
60	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Answer	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	answer speech: assert	imperative	you not said here		man	thus property	vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent he=Eventuality
2	send	present · perfect · passive		Your master		the queenly robes of gold and precious stones and the flowery meadows obl	vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Destination i=Theme
3	tell speech: assert	to-infinitive			you		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic
4	send not said to happen	must	you	man's golden garment	man		vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Destination garment=Theme
5	is	present	man's golden garment			like the sun.	tree rules
6	make	infinitive	you not said here	man			tree rules
7	give	infinitive	man not said here		you		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme
8	is	present	the queenly robes of gold and precious stones and the flowery meadows			like the flowery meadows	tree rules
9	bring	infinitive	you not said here	meadows = meadow	me		vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent they=Destination both=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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