The Green Fairy Book, The Enchanted Snake, sentence 12

The King, who saw at once that the man was a fool, said, in order to get quit of him, ‘Go home and tell your friend the snake that if he can turn this palace into ivory, inlaid with gold and silver, before to-morrow at noon, I will let him marry my daughter.’

Who acts: King, man, I · What happens: see, be, say, get, go, tell · To what, where: fool, quit, snake, friend, palace, ivory · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Snake. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, man, I), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 King	det
2	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 saw	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 saw	punct
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 saw	nsubj
5	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 once	case
7	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	5 saw	obl
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 fool	mark
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 man	det
10	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 fool	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 fool	cop
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 fool	det
13	fool	fool	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 saw	xcomp
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 said	punct
15	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 saw	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 get	punct
17	in	in	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	20 get	mark
18	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 in	fixed
19	to	to	PART	_	20 get	mark
20	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 said	ccomp
21	quit	quit	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 get	obj
22	of	of	ADP	_	23 him	case
23	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 quit	nmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 Go	punct
25	‘	'	PUNCT	_	26 Go	punct
26	Go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	20 get	parataxis
27	home	home	ADV	_	26 Go	advmod
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 tell	cc
29	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	26 Go	conj
30	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 friend	nmod:poss
31	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 tell	obj
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 snake	det
33	snake	snake	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 tell	obj
34	that	that	SCONJ	_	38 turn	mark
35	if	if	SCONJ	_	38 turn	mark
36	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 turn	nsubj
37	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	38 turn	aux
38	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 tell	advcl
39	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	40 palace	det
40	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 turn	obj
41	into	into	ADP	_	42 ivory	case
42	ivory	ivory	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 turn	obl
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 inlaid	punct
44	inlaid	inlay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	42 ivory	acl
45	with	with	ADP	_	46 gold	case
46	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 inlaid	obl
47	and	and	CCONJ	_	48 silver	cc
48	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 gold	conj
49	,	,	PUNCT	_	53 morrow	punct
50	before	before	ADP	_	53 morrow	case
51	to	to	ADP	_	53 morrow	case
52	-	-	PUNCT	_	51 to	punct
53	morrow	morrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 turn	obl
54	at	at	ADP	_	55 noon	case
55	noon	noon	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 morrow	nmod
56	,	,	PUNCT	_	59 let	punct
57	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	59 let	nsubj
58	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	59 let	aux
59	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 saw	ccomp
60	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	59 let	obj
61	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	59 let	xcomp
62	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	63 daughter	nmod:poss
63	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	61 marry	obj
64	.	.	PUNCT	_	59 let	punct
65	’	'	PUNCT	_	59 let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	past	the King						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	is a	past	the man	a fool					tree rules
3	say speech: assert	past	the King not said here						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	get	to-infinitive		quit of King					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer quit=Stimulus
5	go	infinitive						home property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	tell speech: assert	infinitive		the snake	your friend				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent friend=Recipient snake=Topic
7	turn a condition, not said to happen	can	King	this palace		ivory	before morrow at noon		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent palace=Theme into ivory=Trajectory
8	inlay	participle		ivory not said here				with gold and silver	vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with gold=Theme
9	let	future	I	King					tree rules
10	marry	infinitive	King not said here	my daughter					vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Patient

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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