The Green Fairy Book, The Little Soldier, sentence 108

But take it and go to the nearest seaport, where you will find a ship sailing for the Low Countries, and when you become King you will bring me back my fifty crowns.’

Who acts: you, ship, King, my · What happens: take, go, find, sail, become, bring back · To what, where: money, nearest seaport, ship, fifty crowns, me

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Little Soldier. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, ship, King, my), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	2 take	cc
2	take	take	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 take	obj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 go	cc
5	go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 take	conj
6	to	to	ADP	_	9 seaport	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 seaport	det
8	nearest	near	ADJ	Degree=Sup	9 seaport	amod
9	seaport	seaport	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 go	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 find	punct
11	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	14 find	advmod
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 find	nsubj
13	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 find	aux
14	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 seaport	conj
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 ship	det
16	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 find	obj
17	sailing	sail	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	16 ship	acl
18	for	for	ADP	_	21 Countries	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 Countries	det
20	Low	low	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 Countries	amod
21	Countries	Country	PROPN	Number=Plur	17 sailing	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 become	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 become	cc
24	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	26 become	advmod
25	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	26 become	nsubj
26	become	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 take	parataxis
27	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 bring	nsubj
28	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	30 bring	nsubj
29	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 bring	aux
30	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 become	ccomp
31	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	30 bring	obj
32	back	back	ADP	_	30 bring	compound:prt
33	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 crowns	nmod:poss
34	fifty	fifty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	35 crowns	nummod
35	crowns	crown	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 bring	obj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 take	punct
37	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 take	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	take	imperative	you not said here	money				vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	go	infinitive	you not said here			the nearest seaport		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to seaport=Initial_Location
3	find	future	you	a ship				vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ship=Topic
4	sail	gerund	a ship not said here				for the Low Countries	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
5	become	present	you					tree rules
6	bring back	future	King	my fifty crowns	me			vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent i=Destination crown=Theme
7	crown		my					nom crown «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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