The Green Fairy Book, The Little Soldier, sentence 152

‘Very well,’ said the King; ‘let him be asked to come and play cards with me.’

Who acts: King · What happens: say, let, ask, come, play · To what, where: King, cards · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (King), 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	_	6 said	punct
2	Very	very	ADV	_	3 well	advmod
3	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 said	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 well	punct
5	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 King	det
8	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 said	nsubj
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	11 let	punct
10	‘	'	PUNCT	_	11 let	punct
11	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 said	ccomp
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 let	obj
13	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	14 asked	aux:pass
14	asked	ask	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 let	xcomp
15	to	to	PART	_	16 come	mark
16	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 asked	xcomp
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 play	cc
18	play	play	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 come	conj
19	cards	card	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 play	obj
20	with	with	ADP	_	21 me	case
21	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 play	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct
23	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the King		well property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	let	infinitive		King		tree rules
3	ask speech: ask	infinitive · passive	King not said here			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S_INF»: clause=Topic
4	come not said to happen	to-infinitive	King not said here			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	play	infinitive	King not said here	cards	with me	vn play-114.2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent card=Theme with i=Co-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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