The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Three Wonderful Beggars, sentence 91

‘When the time comes, remember me and ask the king: “Rotten to the roots, half dead but still green, stands the old oak.

Who acts: time, Rotten · What happens: come, remember, ask, stand · To what, where: me, king, old oak · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Three Wonderful Beggars. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (time, Rotten), 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	_	7 remember	punct
2	When	when	SCONJ	_	5 comes	mark
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 time	det
4	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 comes	nsubj
5	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 remember	advcl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 comes	punct
7	remember	remember	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 stands	advcl
8	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 remember	obj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 ask	cc
10	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 remember	conj
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 king	det
12	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 ask	obj
13	:	:	PUNCT	_	15 Rotten	punct
14	“	"	PUNCT	_	15 Rotten	punct
15	Rotten	rotten	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 stands	nsubj
16	to	to	ADP	_	18 roots	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 roots	det
18	roots	root	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 Rotten	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 half	punct
20	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	18 roots	conj
21	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 roots	amod
22	but	but	CCONJ	_	24 green	cc
23	still	still	ADV	_	24 green	advmod
24	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 dead	conj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 stands	punct
26	stands	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 oak	det
28	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 oak	amod
29	oak	oak	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 stands	obj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	26 stands	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	come	present	the time			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	remember	infinitive	Rotten to the roots and half not said here	me		vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent i=Theme
3	ask speech: ask	infinitive	Rotten to the roots and half not said here		the king	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent king=Recipient
4	stand in a quote	present	Rotten to the roots and half	the old oak		vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer oak=Stimulus

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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