The Green Fairy Book, The Enchanted Snake, sentence 24

When the peasant informed the snake what the King had said, he replied, ‘To-morrow morning, early, you must go to the market and buy all the fruit you see there, and then sow all the stones and seeds in the palace garden, and, if I’m not mistaken, the King will be satisfied with the result.’

Who acts: peasant, King, you · What happens: inform, say, reply, go, buy, see · To what, where: snake, market, fruit, stones, palace garden · 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 (peasant, King, you), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 informed	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 peasant	det
3	peasant	peasant	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 informed	nsubj
4	informed	inform	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 replied	advcl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 snake	det
6	snake	snake	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 informed	obj
7	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	11 said	obj
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 King	det
9	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 said	nsubj
10	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 said	aux
11	said	say	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 snake	acl:relcl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 informed	punct
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 replied	nsubj
14	replied	reply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 morning	punct
16	‘	'	PUNCT	_	20 morning	punct
17	To	to	ADP	_	20 morning	case
18	-	-	PUNCT	_	17 To	punct
19	morrow	morrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 morning	compound
20	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 replied	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 early	punct
22	early	early	ADV	Degree=Pos	14 replied	advmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 go	punct
24	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	26 go	nsubj
25	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 go	aux
26	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 replied	parataxis
27	to	to	ADP	_	29 market	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 market	det
29	market	market	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 go	obl
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 buy	cc
31	buy	buy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 go	conj
32	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	34 fruit	det:predet
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 fruit	det
34	fruit	fruit	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 buy	obj
35	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	36 see	nsubj
36	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	34 fruit	acl:relcl
37	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	36 see	advmod
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 sow	punct
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 sow	cc
40	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	41 sow	advmod
41	sow	sow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 go	conj
42	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	44 stones	det:predet
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 stones	det
44	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	41 sow	obj
45	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 seeds	cc
46	seeds	seed	NOUN	Number=Plur	44 stones	conj
47	in	in	ADP	_	50 garden	case
48	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	50 garden	det
49	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 garden	compound
50	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 sow	obl
51	,	,	PUNCT	_	64 satisfied	punct
52	and	and	CCONJ	_	64 satisfied	cc
53	,	,	PUNCT	_	52 and	punct
54	if	if	SCONJ	_	58 mistaken	mark
55	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	58 mistaken	nsubj
56	’m	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	58 mistaken	aux
57	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	58 mistaken	advmod
58	mistaken	mistaken	ADJ	Degree=Pos	64 satisfied	advcl
59	,	,	PUNCT	_	58 mistaken	punct
60	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	61 King	det
61	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	64 satisfied	nsubj
62	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	64 satisfied	aux
63	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	64 satisfied	cop
64	satisfied	satisfied	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 replied	parataxis
65	with	with	ADP	_	67 result	case
66	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	67 result	det
67	result	result	NOUN	Number=Sing	64 satisfied	obl
68	.	.	PUNCT	_	64 satisfied	punct
69	’	'	PUNCT	_	64 satisfied	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	inform speech: other	past	the peasant		the snake				vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent snake=Recipient
2	say speech: assert	past · perfect	the King	the snake					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic
3	reply speech: assert	past	King				morning	early property	vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	go	must	you			the market			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to market=Initial_Location
5	buy	infinitive	you not said here	all fruit					vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fruit=Theme
6	see	present	you	all fruit not said here		there			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer fruit=Stimulus
7	sow	infinitive	you not said here	all stones and seeds		the palace garden	then		vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent stone=Theme in garden=Destination
8	is	future	the King					with the result; satisfied property	tree rules

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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