The Green Fairy Book, The Golden Mermaid, sentence 36
The prisoner shall be told to steal this horse and bring it to me.’
Who acts: prisoner · What happens: tell, steal, bring · To what, where: prisoner, horse, me · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Mermaid. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prisoner), 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 prisoner | det |
| 2 | prisoner | prisoner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 told | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 told | aux |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 told | aux:pass |
| 5 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 steal | mark |
| 7 | steal | steal | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 told | xcomp |
| 8 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 horse | det |
| 9 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 steal | obj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 bring | cc |
| 11 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 steal | conj |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 bring | obj |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 me | case |
| 14 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 bring | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 told | punct |
| 16 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | shall · passive | the prisoner | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | steal not said to happen | to-infinitive | the prisoner not said here | this horse | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location horse=Theme | ||||
| 3 | bring | infinitive | the prisoner not said here | prisoner | me | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme to i=Destination |
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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