The Yellow Fairy Book, The Golden Crab(5), sentence 46

’’ Answer him thus: ‘Your master the King has sent me hither to tell you to send him his golden armour and his steed and the silver apple.

Who acts: you · What happens: answer, send, tell · To what, where: man, master, you, golden armour · 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), 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	’’	''	PUNCT	_	2 Answer	punct
2	Answer	answer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 Answer	obj
4	thus	thus	ADV	_	2 Answer	advmod
5	:	:	PUNCT	_	12 sent	punct
6	‘	'	PUNCT	_	12 sent	punct
7	Your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 master	nmod:poss
8	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 sent	nsubj:pass
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 King	det
10	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 master	appos
11	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 sent	aux
12	sent	send	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 Answer	parataxis
13	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 sent	obj
14	hither	hither	ADV	_	12 sent	advmod
15	to	to	PART	_	16 tell	mark
16	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 sent	advcl
17	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 tell	iobj
18	to	to	PART	_	19 send	mark
19	send	send	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 tell	xcomp
20	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 send	obj
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 armour	nmod:poss
22	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 armour	amod
23	armour	armour	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 send	obj
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 steed	cc
25	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 steed	nmod:poss
26	steed	steed	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 armour	conj
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 apple	cc
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 apple	det
29	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 apple	compound
30	apple	apple	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 armour	conj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 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		hither property	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	to-infinitive		man's golden armour and man's steed and the silver apple	man		vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Destination armour=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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