The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 2, sentence 43

Greet your father King Kojata from me, and don’t forget to remind him of his debt; the time has long passed since it was due, but now he will have to pay it.

Who acts: you, time, debt, KING · What happens: greet, not forget, remind, pass, be, have · To what, where: father, KING, debt

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, time, debt, 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	Greet	greet	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 father	nmod:poss
3	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Greet	obj
4	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 father	appos
5	Kojata	Kojata	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 King	flat
6	from	from	ADP	_	7 me	case
7	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	1 Greet	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 forget	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 forget	cc
10	do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	12 forget	aux
11	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 forget	advmod
12	forget	forget	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Greet	conj
13	to	to	PART	_	14 remind	mark
14	remind	remind	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 forget	xcomp
15	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 remind	iobj
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 debt	case
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 debt	nmod:poss
18	debt	debt	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 remind	obl
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 passed	punct
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 time	det
21	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 passed	nsubj
22	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 passed	aux
23	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	24 passed	advmod
24	passed	pass	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 forget	conj
25	since	since	SCONJ	_	28 due	mark
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 due	nsubj
27	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 due	cop
28	due	due	ADJ	Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP	24 passed	advcl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 have	punct
30	but	but	CCONJ	_	34 have	cc
31	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	34 have	advmod
32	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 have	nsubj
33	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 have	aux
34	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Greet	conj
35	to	to	PART	_	36 pay	mark
36	pay	pay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 have	xcomp
37	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 pay	obj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Greet	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	greet speech: greet	imperative	you not said here		your father		from me	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent father=Theme
2	not forget	infinitive · do-support	you not said here					tree rules
3	remind speech: other	to-infinitive	you not said here		KING		of KING's debt	vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient PP.topic»: agent=Agent he=Recipient of debt=Topic
4	pass	present · perfect	the time				long property	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	is	past	debt				due property	tree rules
6	have	future	KING			now		tree rules
7	pay	to-infinitive	KING not said here	debt				vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Asset

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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