The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Hassebu, sentence 55

‘Then stay for a little with me,’ said the king, and he bade his soldiers bring water from the spring and fruits from the forest, and to set them before the guest.

Who acts: King, soldiers · What happens: stay, say, bade, bring, set · To what, where: king, water, soldiers · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Hassebu. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, soldiers), 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	_	3 stay	punct
2	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 stay	advmod
3	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 said	ccomp
4	for	for	ADP	_	6 little	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 little	det
6	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 stay	obl
7	with	with	ADP	_	8 me	case
8	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 little	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 stay	punct
10	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 stay	punct
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 king	det
13	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 said	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 bade	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 bade	cc
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 bade	nsubj
17	bade	bade	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 said	conj
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 soldiers	nmod:poss
19	soldiers	soldier	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 bring	nsubj
20	bring	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 bade	ccomp
21	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 bring	obj
22	from	from	ADP	_	24 spring	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 spring	det
24	spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 bring	obl
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 fruits	cc
26	fruits	fruit	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 spring	conj
27	from	from	ADP	_	29 forest	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 forest	det
29	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 fruits	nmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 set	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 set	cc
32	to	to	PART	_	33 set	mark
33	set	set	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 bring	conj
34	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 set	obj
35	before	before	ADP	_	37 guest	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 guest	det
37	guest	guest	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 set	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	stay	infinitive			then	for a little	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past		the king			tree rules
3	bade	past	King				tree rules
4	bring	present	King's soldiers	water	spring		vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent water=Theme
5	set	to-infinitive	King's soldiers not said here	soldiers = soldier	before the guest		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme before guest=Destination

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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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